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They say quadrillion; shouldn't this be quintillion?
by voidz 11y ago
They say quadrillion; shouldn't this be quintillion?
- white-flame 11y agoNo, quadrillion in the common short scale: 35,000 = thousand 35,000,000 = million 35,000,000,000 = billion 35,000,000,000,000 = trillion 35,000,000,000,000,000 = quadrillion In the long scale, this would be a "thousand billion" (or apparently also a "billiard" according to wikipedia), so not a quintillion there either. It boils down to denoting thousands of thousands, not just the raw number of triplet zeros in the number.