how many millions are there in one billion ?

Question

and what comes after billion, and how many billions are in that. What comes after that, ect.

Please list as much as you can.

Answer 1

There is a long scale (in steps of a million) and a short scale (in steps of a thousand). And both are used and both are correct.

The first person to develop a consistent system for naming large numbers was Nicolas Chuquet, a French mathematician at the end of the 15th Century, whose great work, Triparty en la science des nombres, was unpublished in his lifetime.

His book shows a huge number divided into groups of six digits, and in a short passage he states that the groups can be called

"million, the second mark byllion, the third mark tryllion, the fourth quadrillion, the fifth quyillion, the sixth sixlion, the seventh septyllion, the eighth ottyllion, the ninth nonyllion and so on with others as far as you wish to go."

Chuquet then was the original author of the earliest work using of a systematic, extended series of names combining Latin-derived prefixes with the suffix -illion or -yllion. .

The system in which the names million, billion, trillion, etc. refer to powers of one million is sometimes referred to as the Chuquet system.

Around 1550, Jacques Peletier du Mans took a system based on powers of 10^6, and added the term "milliard" for 10^9. This system was then used in England and Germany and part of the rest of Europe. This system is sometimes referred to as the Chuquet-Peletier system.

Much later, in France and in the USA, a different short scale system became established where the term billion signifies 109. Last century, England and other English-speaking countries joined the USA and other countries in using the short scale system; whereas, France rejoined Germany, most of Europe, and much of the world in the Chuquet-Peletier, or long scale, system.

LONG SCALE AND SHORT SCALE COINCIDE ON

Thousand = 1,000 (10^3)
Million = 1,000,000 (10^6)

BUT DIVERGE THEREAFTER:

LONG SCALE:

10^12 = a million million = 1 billion
10^18 = a million billion = 1 trillion
10^24 = a million trillion = 1 quadrillion
10^30 = a million quadrillion = 1 quintillion

10^36 = a million quintillion = 1 sextillion
10^42 = a million sextillion = 1 septillion
10^48 = a million septillion = 1 octillion
10^54 = a million octillion = 1 nonillion
10^60 = a million nonillion = 1 decillion

SHORT SCALE

10^9 = a thousand million = 1 billion
10^12 = a thousand billion = 1 trillion
10^15 = a thousand trillion = 1 quadrillion
10^18 = a thousand quadrillion = 1 quintillion

10^21 = a thousand quintillion = 1 sextillion
10^24 = a thousand sextillion = 1 septillion
10^27 = a thousand septillion = 1 octillion
10^30 = a thousand octillion = 1 nonillion
10^33 = a thousand nonillion = 1 decillion

SHORT AND LONG SCALES AFTER A DECILLION

undecillion 10^36 10^66
duodecillion 10^39 10^72
tredecillion 10^42 10^78
quattuordecillion 10^45 10^84
quindecillion (quinquadecillion) 10^48 10^90

sexdecillion (sedecillion) 10^51 10^96
septendecillion 10^54 10^102
octodecillion 10^57 10^108
novemdecillion (novendecillion) 10^60 10^114
vigintillion 10^63 10^120

Answer 2

Hey there!

A 1000 millions make a billion.
A 1000 billions make a trillion.
A 1000 trillions make a quadrillion.
A 1000 quadrillions make a quintillion.
A 1000 quintillions make a sextillion.
A 1000 sextillions make a septillion.
A 1000 septillions make an octillion.

And so on.

Note that a million is the same as 10^6 and a thousand is the same as 10^3. Since the product of 10^6 and 10^3 is 10^9, and a billion is 10^9, the product of a million and a thousand is a billion.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

The modern definition of a billion is 1000 million.

However, there used to be a distinction between "American billion" (1000 million) and "British billion" (million million).

The American definition has become globally accepted.

1 trillion = 1000 billion (i.e. 1 million million)

Beyond this, I believe that you use combinations of the above.

I've heard "quadrillion", but I didn't think it was a proper word until I looked it up. It's not widely used as anything of that magnitude tends to exist in science and would therefore be expressed in standard/scientific form (like 6 x 10^23)

I've also heard "Marillion", but that's a prog-rock band from the 1980s.

Answer 4

It depends. If you are in an English- speaking country like the US, the more common definition of a billion is a thousand million, and is represented by 1 and 9 zeroes, as follows:

1,000,000,000

If you are in any of non-English speaking countries, a billion has 12 zeros ( and is actually the equivalent of a US thrillion). Thus in these countries, a "billion" will have a million billion under American way of nomenclature (way of naming things).

To answer the rest of your question - and using the US standard of counting - the following is a list of mega numbers with zeros (otherwise called ciphers):

1,000,000 million
1,000,000,000 billion
1,000,000,000, 000 thrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 quinitillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 heptillion, etc.etc.

I hope I didn't bore you to "infinity." You have a great,
billion-dollar-sized day.

Answer 5

1000 millionms in 1 billion

Answer 6

we give a new name to a number every time we add a group of 3 zeros

1000= a thousand
1000,000=a million
1000,000,000=a billion ( short for a thousand million)
1000,000,000,000= a trillion (a thousand billion) not a million million and so on

Answer 7

there are 1000 millions in a billion. a trillion is next with 1000 billions in that.

Answer 8

According to American and French heirarchy of numbers there are 1000 millions in one billion and 1000 billions in one trillion and so on......
According to British and German heirarchy of numbers there are one million millions in one billion and one million billions in one trillion and so on..........

Units are as under:
million - billion - trillion - quadrillion - quintillion - sextillion - septillion - octillion - nontillion - dectillion - undecillion - duodecillion - tredecillion - quattourdecillion - quindecillion - sexdecillion - septendecillion - octodecillion - novemdecillion - vigintillion
.

Answer 9

1,000,000,000 / 1,000,000 = 1,000
There are 1,000 millions in 1 billion.
There are 1,000 billions in 1 trillion.
There are 1,000 trillions in 1 quadrillion.
There are 1,000 quadrillions in 1 quintillion.

Answer 10

1000

million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, etc...

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