Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4) wrote:
At least in German speaking countries, the following terms
are used:
1 Million = 10 ^ 6, which corresponds to million in the US
1 Milliarde = 10 ^ 9 -> billion
1 Billion = 10 ^ 12 -> trillion
1 Billiarde = 10 ^ 15 -> quadrillion
1 Trillion = 10 ^ 18 -> what's next? quintillion?
etc.
Same in whole (AFAIK) Europe.
10^24 is quadrillion
10^30 is AFAIK pentillion or quintillion (in fact nobody use it)
It's based on greek numerals, like hydrocarbon names.
BTW: 10^100 is 10 hexadecilliards
10 give one zero, hexadecilliard is 1000 hexadecillions which is
16*group of six zeroes 1+3+16*6=100.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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