• threelonmusketeers
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    1 year ago

    But at least we messed up the billions

    No, you folks did it correctly. It’s everyone else who messed up: How big is a billion?

    1 million squared is a billion. 1 million cubed is a trillion. (1 million)^4 is a quadrillion. And so forth with pent-, sex-, sept-, oct-, etc. Milliard, billiard, trilliard, etc. slot in between the powers of one million.