Comments on: Poll: How many millions are in a trillion?

By: Zashkaser

Zashkaser — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:49:19 +0000

I rarely comment on blogs but yours I had to stop and say Great Blog!!

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Communicated the Debt Disaster « Vasko Kohlmayer — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:00:55 +0000

[...] complaint is not entirely unjustified. A recent survey found that only 21 percent of Americans could correctly quantify one trillion (a million million). [...]

By: Paavo Ojala

Paavo Ojala — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:10:54 +0000

trillion in french is billion.

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Against innumeracy: special issue on TJIC links « Blunt Object — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:03:22 +0000

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By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:52:43 +0000

Oh for goodness sakes.

10^12/10^6=10^6

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By: xdx

xdx — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:00:42 +0000

It depends on if you live at EE.UU. or not.

By: The Mad Ape

The Mad Ape — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:07 +0000

one million millions in one trillion

1000 millions in a billion
1000 billions in a trillion

1000 X 1000 = 1,000,000 millions in a trillion.

The Mad Ape

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:18:24 +0000

What’s that in crores?

I wish we had simple names for 2^n and 10^(2^n).

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:17:50 +0000

I would like to point out that for many years, Brits and others referred to a million as 10^6 and a billion as 10^12. The US had no problem with the million but the billion was 10^9. As can be expected, this caused much confusion and dismay. Several years ago, I forget exactly when, but fairly recently, the UK agreed to go with the US definition. This whole ‘llion terminology should be scrapped and the standard prefixes used – milli, centi, deci, etc.