Comments on: What comes after $99 million? http://outsidemyhead.com/what-comes-after-99-million/ I'm a marathon training, baseball watching, yogi Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:04:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: l'empress http://outsidemyhead.com/what-comes-after-99-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3857 l'empress Fri, 01 May 2009 20:34:28 +0000 http://outsidemyhead.com/?p=1490#comment-3857 Picky picky. After 99,000,000 (99 million) comes 99,000,001. Scientists are usually happier using superscripts: 1 million is 1 to the 6th power; 1 billion is 1 to the 9th power; 1 trillion is 1 to the 12th power. It avoids the difficulties posed by the European "milliard," because their definition of a billion is not a thousand million but a million million. Aren't you sorry you asked? l'empresss last blog post..<a href="http://l-empress.liscious.net/older/009547.html" rel="nofollow">Text Me No Texts</a> Picky picky. After 99,000,000 (99 million) comes 99,000,001.
Scientists are usually happier using superscripts: 1 million is 1 to the 6th power; 1 billion is 1 to the 9th power; 1 trillion is 1 to the 12th power. It avoids the difficulties posed by the European “milliard,” because their definition of a billion is not a thousand million but a million million.

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