Ever wondered what 1 trillion dollars looks like?
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And just to put it further into perspective - if it was a 1 Trillion Pounds, due to our highest denomination being a £50 note.......
twice as high
Still hard to comprehend that much money.....
twice as high
Still hard to comprehend that much money.....
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Is a US trillion the same though? For some reason I thought it was different, for some reason I think a US trillion is 12 zeros where as a UK trillion is 18??? Or am I talking rubbish?
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You're correct, the US use a non-sensical method of naming large numbers. We use a method of the number of times a million is written:
1 000 000 = million
1 000 000 000 000 = billion (2 x million)
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 = trillion (3 x million)
So a quadrillion is 4 x million (and so on. Quintrillion= 5 x million) So there's the answer to what you name those really big numbers.
It's actually at a billion (1000 million) that the Americans get it wrong and just stay there.
1 000 000 = million
1 000 000 000 000 = billion (2 x million)
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 = trillion (3 x million)
So a quadrillion is 4 x million (and so on. Quintrillion= 5 x million) So there's the answer to what you name those really big numbers.
It's actually at a billion (1000 million) that the Americans get it wrong and just stay there.
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