RE: Billions across the world in English

by Elias Thienpont <elias(at)assumptionabbey.com>

Date:	Sat, 01 Jul 2000 07:53:45 -0600
To:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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>Name             American-French  English-German
>
>million          10^6             10^6
>billion          10^9             10^12
>trillion         10^12            10^18
>quadrillion      10^15            10^24
>quintillion      10^18            10^30
>sextillion       10^21            10^36
>septillion       10^24            10^42
>octillion        10^27            10^48
>nonillion        10^30            10^54
>decillion        10^33            10^60
>undecillion      10^36            10^66
>duodecillion     10^39            10^72
>tredecillion     10^42            10^78
>quatuordecillion 10^45            10^84
>quindecillion    10^48            10^90
>sexdecillion     10^51            10^96
>septendecillion  10^54            10^102
>octodecillion    10^57            10^108
>novemdecillion   10^60            10^114
>vigintillion     10^63            10^120

Isn't a great thing that we have already decided that numbers over ten 
would be written as numbers rather than as words.

Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
http://www.assumptionabbey.com

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