In article , Svend Tang-Petersen
wrote:

rw wrote:

Lat705 wrote:

Just got an email that I won $2 million in the "British Novo Lotto".
Not only
that, but I may win the $20 Billion follow on lottery.

$20 billion??? Don't the British use "billion" to mean a million
million, which in the American usage is a trillion? The GDP of the
entire world is estimated at $47 trillion. :-)

I hope I get my money
so I can treat you guys to a drink at the Western Clave.

Dom Perignon? Chateau Lafite Rothschild?

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

No. We europeans use:

10^6 : million
10^9 : milliard
10^12: billion
10^15: billiard
10^18: trillion
10^21: trilliard

it actually makes more sense language wise (-on, followed by -ard).

Svend

Seems rather complex to me...

Billiard... isn't that a pool table with no pockets?

Here in the US it's:

10^6 : million
10^9 : billion
10^12: trillion
10^15: quadrillion
10^18: quintillion
10^21: sextillion
10^24: septillion
10^27: octillion
10^30: nontillion
10^33: dectillion

then nothing I know of up until

10^100: google (no, I'm not kidding... and it's where the search engine
got it's name.)

and finally

(10^100)^100: googleplex - the largest named number.

When you consider that the number of atoms in the known universe could be
expressed in terms of googleplex, the need for anything larger is rather
moot, and from the standpoint of our comprehension so close to being
infinite as being indistinguishable.

--

Joe Ellis