How many zeros are there in billion and trillion

• trashbag

  18 Aug 09, 23:34

  Just curious.

   

  How many zeros are there in 1 billion dollars and how many zeros are there in 1 trillion dollars?

   

  And is trillion the highest figure? Any other larger figure than trillion?

• eagle

  18 Aug 09, 23:35

  zillion, quadrillion

• FireIce

  18 Aug 09, 23:38

  u can machi with nikar.

• caleb_chiang

  18 Aug 09, 23:43

  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_after_a_trillion

  a quadrillion!!!! if you want to go further, after quadrillion, it's quintillion, then sextillion, then septillion, then octillion, then nonillion, then decillion!!!!!

• trashbag

  18 Aug 09, 23:43

  Originally posted by eagle:

  zillion, quadrilliono

  
  ok so how many zeros are there in zillion and quadrilliono?

• airgrinder

  18 Aug 09, 23:45

  Originally posted by trashbag:

  Just curious.

   

  How many zeros are there in 1 billion dollars and how many zeros are there in 1 trillion dollars?

   

  And is trillion the highest figure? Any other larger figure than trillion?

  depends on what billion you are talking about. If u see this headline in a UK paper "XXX Company Loses 1 Billion", it's $1,000,000,000,000

  If you see "YYY company buys ZZZ company over for 1 Billion" in the US, it's $1,000,000,000

  Singapore adorbs the US system, hence if Singapore Pools announced u win SGD1Billion, it's nine zeros. =)

• limywv

  18 Aug 09, 23:47

  
  

   

   

   

• Cool-gal

  18 Aug 09, 23:49

  meaning to say UK 1B is higher than US 1B by 3 zero?

• airgrinder

  18 Aug 09, 23:49

  yes.for the monetary system at least.

• caleb_chiang

  19 Aug 09, 00:21

  like for chinese numbers, ä¸€ä¸‡ only 10,000

• Arapahoe

  19 Aug 09, 01:00

  Originally posted by caleb_chiang:

  like for chinese numbers, ä¸€ä¸‡ only 10,000

  
  ........... :  ) thats why they are still lag behind.....! Just kiding.....

• Lee012lee

  19 Aug 09, 01:23

  Originally posted by trashbag:

  Just curious.

   

  How many zeros are there in 1 billion dollars and how many zeros are there in 1 trillion dollars?

   

  And is trillion the highest figure? Any other larger figure than trillion?

  1 Billion = 1,000,000,000 (US)

              = 1,000,000,000,000 (UK)

  However, the usage of UK definition of billion is losing ground ie even in news in bloomberg 13 billion pounds are stated to be equal to 21.4 billion dollars.

  1 Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 (US)

  Zillion IS NOT A UNIT ie zillion is used in everyday language as an infinite or very, very large number or amount.

  So, in mathematics, zillion is not associated with a given number of zeros. Indeed, zillion is not even a term used in mathematics.