Your dictionary is wrong. A trillion is a thousand billion, not a million billion.
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how much is a trillion dollars?
Million, billion, trillion … all big numbers. A trillion is just a bigger number, right? True … but it may be bigger than youthink. A million is hard enough to imagine, much less a billion. We need some perspective on what these unimaginablenumbers really mean.
Let’s Measure a Trillion in NumbersWe’ll start simple: how big is a trillion on paper?1,000 = one thousand
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
A million is equal to a thousand thousands (1,000 x 1,000).
A billion is equal to a thousand millions (1,000 x 1,000,000).
A trillion is equal to a thousand billions (1,000 x 1,000,000,000)
or a million millions (1,000,000 x 1,000,000). |
