Re: billion and trillion

From: Ricardo Bermell-Benet (rbermell@aimplas.es)
Date: Mon Jun 28 1999 - 06:23:51 EDT


At 01:14 1999-06-28 -0700, I wrote:
> As a curiosity, spanish "billon" is 10**12, one million of
> millions. A spanish trillion, i'm not sure, but i think is
> one million of millions of millions, so 10**18.
> (Spanish recently proposed name for 10**9 is "miardardo")

The correct term is "miriardo" (I mistyped)

Ricardo Bermell-Benet



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