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Also, basically no-one uses the long scale anymore. Which is a shame. -illiard is a fantastic suffix.

• adlpz 13y ago
  Well, if no-one is pretty much all the non-english-speaking world, then yes.
  • yen223 13y ago
    The Chinese don't use the long scale either, at least not in this form - we count in magnitudes of 10,000.
    • adlpz 13y ago
      I wasn't aware of that. To be sincere, I also made the mistake of looking too close home. I was mostly talking about the non-English-speaking 'western hemisphere'.
• apetresc 13y ago
  So are thousands of billions called billiards? :)
  • ahomescu1 13y ago
    Yes, it appears they are. In long scale it's million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard etc.