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creativedragonbaby
· 5 years ago
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It goes 100 thousand million, then a billion
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lucky11
· 5 years ago
So there are two scales for any power of ten over a million. The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for integer powers of ten that use the same words with different meanings. The long scale is based on powers of one million, whereas the short scale is based on powers of one thousand. For whole numbers less than a thousand million (< 109) the two scales are identical. From a thousand million up (≥ 109) the two scales diverge, using the same words for different numbers, which can cause misunderstanding. Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However, this is no longer common, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades. This info can be found on two Wikipedia pages: 1,000,000,000 and Long and Short scales.
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· 5 years ago
*laughs in Japanese numbers*