Thursday, November 06, 2008

How Much?

Did I just hear Terri Gross say that "a trillion" is "a billion billion"? Cf. link.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does that make a billion a million million?

I've been argued to that this is so. And it appears to be true, at least some places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Other_languages_and_countries

Anonymous said...

Shoot. I should have followed your link.