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The principal difference between the two systems is the meaning of the word " million (1012), a Trillion is a million billion (1018), and so forth; a Thousand million (109) is called a Milliard , a thousand billion (1015) a Billiard etc. In the short scale system a billion is a thousand million (109), a trillion is a thousand billion (1012), and so forth.

After the million mark, the Long Scale number system is based on millions, the Short Scale number system is based on thousands. The prefix of the number name corresponds to the power of the base number. e.g. bi means '''2''', '''tri''' means '''3''', '''quadri''' means '''4''', etc.
  • In the Long Scale system (see Nicolas Chuquet ), each number is a power of a million, i.e. (n)illion = (one million)'''n''' = 10'''n'''×6.

  • In the Short Scale system, the prefix and the number of power of thousand will match only when the first 1000 is factored out, i.e. (n)illion = 1000 × 1000'''n''' or 10('''n'''+1)×3.

    • Compare SI Prefix es: the larger ones based on the word for n mean 1000n.







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NOTES

# In 1974 the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced to the House Of Commons that from now on British government statistics would abandon the use of "billion" for 1012 and adopt the American usage 109 to reduce confusion in the financial markets.
# Most of these number names are not used in ordinary writing. The "-illion"s above "quintillion" are almost nowhere to be seen, except perhaps in lists of number names such as this one. Larger numbers are referred to as powers of ten using Scientific Notation , for instance, as "1025" (read "ten to the twenty-five"), etc. This avoids the ambiguity that these -illion words produce. " Googol ", however, is not uncommonly used for rough approximations.


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  • English name of a number CGI script that will return the name of a number (in American English) for any decimal number entered, no matter how large.



Indian English additionally uses the words Lakh and ''' Crore ''' to denote ''100 thousand'' ('''lakh''') or ''ten million'' ('''crore''', i.e. 100 '''lakhs'''). e.g.,
  • ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'', the Indian version of '' Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ''

  • "Faced with the worst drought conditions in three decades, the Andhra Pradesh government has asked for an assistance of Rs 2160 crore from the central government..."