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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
Standard to 'merkin you mean 
Nyah, nyah, our trillion is a million times larger than your trillion.
It's funny how, in a country that seems awfully facinated about everything big, your numbers are smaller than ours. |
That doesn't sound right.
Thinking as I type, I get:
Our trillion = 1000 times our Billion = 1E12
Your trillion (if I understand it right) = Your Billion times your Billion = 1E12 * 1E12 = 1E24.
So your Trillion is our trillion squared. A trillion times as big, by our scale. A billion times by yours.
Seems like the long scale trillion ceases to be a very useful number, even for national budgets.
I probably got something wrong, but on this board I rest assured of being corrected if I did!