Million, billion and trillion.

[Shut Up Legs]

It's complicated by the fact that different countries use different multipliers for the terms million, trillion, etc. Before my recent Italy / France trip, I was learning some Italian numbers, and the translation for billion in Italian wasn't what I expected, and I then found out that Australia is a "short scale country" while Italy is a "long scale country".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

 

[LocalLad]

What's after a trillion ?

I believe it's quadrillion, quintillion etx

 

[LocalLad]

It's complicated by the fact that different countries use different multipliers for the terms million, trillion, etc. Before my recent Italy / France trip, I was learning some Italian numbers, and the translation for billion in Italian wasn't what I expected, and I then found out that Australia is a "short scale country" while Italy is a "long scale country".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Interestingly, it always makes most sense to me to be a million million is a billion; a billion billion is a trillion etc... Which according to that link is longer than the long version

 

[nickyboy]

In China, they have words for 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000000 (the last one being one hundred million)

No word for a million, or a billion. So seventy three million is expressed as "seven ten three thousand ten thousands". With that system they're good up to 9.999 x 10,000 x 100,000,000 which is, I think, nine hundred and ninety nine trillion. Should be enough

 

[Levo-Lon]

Keith and Viv Nicholson won about 160 grand on the pools in the 60's..3.5 million value now..
They really did spend spend spend..
160 grand would get a modest house these days..

 

[screenman]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If I recall it was Arthur Dent, but Zaphod Beeblebrox got there first.






<takes a nerdy lap of honour>

We're listening to the radio show at the mo, it's top stuff.

 

[jefmcg]

most people actually fail to grasp even a million.

1
10×1=100
10×100=1000
so far so easy to comprehend the scaling.

but the next step is different.
1000×1000=1million

I have no idea what you are on about.

1. 10x1 is 10, not 100.
2. Your sequence makes no sense 1 100 1000 1000000? What's the pattern?

Big night?

 

[Oxo]

I have no idea what you are on about.

1. 10x1 is 10, not 100.
2. Your sequence makes no sense 1 100 1000 1000000? What's the pattern?

Big night?

0 x 0 = 00
0 x 00 = 000
0 x 000 = 0000 etc

No big mystery, nothing to it really.

 

[jefmcg]

0 x 0 = 00
0 x 00 = 000
0 x 000 = 0000 etc

No big mystery, nothing to it really.

But that's not the steps he wrote ....
<blank> 00 000 000000
no sign of 0, 0000 or 00000

 

[Levo-Lon]

I have no idea what you are on about.

1. 10x1 is 10, not 100.
2. Your sequence makes no sense 1 100 1000 1000000? What's the pattern?

Big night?

He used to work out Bankers wages

 

[PK99]

I have no idea what you are on about.

1. 10x1 is 10, not 100.
2. Your sequence makes no sense 1 100 1000 1000000? What's the pattern?

Big night?

fat finger and jet lag

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[Cp40Carl]

That God bloke was really busy on the first day wasn't he. No wonder he had Sunday off.

Yes, and an estimated 12 billion planets containing life - I wonder if he spread his biblical tale around, in which case they presumably know about Earth and the cross incident...

 

[Levo-Lon]

Yes, and an estimated 12 billion planets containing life - I wonder if he spread his biblical tale around, in which case they presumably know about Earth and the cross incident...

Maybe one day humans will All see beyond religion...who knows we might even get on then?

 

[Cp40Carl]

Maybe one day humans will All see beyond religion...who knows we might even get on then?

As John Lennon so succinctly put it:

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one".