- Billion - Wikipedia
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word billion was formed in the 16th century (from million and the prefix bi-, "two"), meaning the second power of a million (1,000,000 2 = 10 12) This long scale definition was similarly applied to trillion, quadrillion and so on
- How Many Zeros Are in a Million, Billion, and Trillion? - ThoughtCo
In the United States—as well as around the world in science and finance—a billion is 1,000 million, which is written as a one followed by nine zeros This is also called the "short scale "
- BILLION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Billion was borrowed from French in the late 1600s to indicate the number one million raised to the power of two, or a million million—a number represented by a 1 followed by 12 zeros
- What Is a Billion? Definition, Examples, Facts, Conversion
A billion is a large number equal to 1,000,000,000 (one followed by nine zeros) Learn the definition, place value chart, facts, examples, and more
- Names of Large Numbers | Billion, Trillion, Googolplex | Britannica
Large numbers are numbers above one million that are usually represented either with the use of an exponent such as 109 or by terms such as billion or thousand millions that frequently differ from system to system
- BILLION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
(Definition of billion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
- What does Billion mean? - Definitions. net
A billion is a number equivalent to one thousand million (1,000,000,000) in the US and many other countries, or one million million (1,000,000,000,000) in the UK before 1974
- What is a Billion? - Definition, Relation with Million and Trillion . . .
Billion is a very large number that is 1 followed by 9 zeros It is also known as a thousand millions as 1,000 × 1000,000 = 1000,000,000 The prefix "giga-" in the word 'gigameter' refers to billion, which means 1 gigameter is nothing but a billion meters
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