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We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad.
More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. More about them at http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html
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These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean?
(c) 2016. Click "show more" for additional thoughts and further reading:
There are dozens of other ways people have come up with to visualize millions and billions and trillions (and more). You can find many of them on google; here are two of my all time favorites:
The "Mega Penny Project"
http://nanospace.molecularium.com/attractions/mega_penny/
"Powers of Ten" (Classic 1977 Science Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&t;=5s
If you're watching this video and you're not American, there's a chance you're kind of confused right now. That's because the number-naming system I describe here is called the "short scale," and it's DIFFERENT than what's used in continental Europe and other places (In fact, until recently, the long scale was used in the UK as well, and was only officially replaced in 1974). They use what's called the "long scale," and their word "billion" refers to what we would call "trillion"!
You can read more about the naming of numbers, and about the short and long scales here:
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/long-and-short-numeric-scales/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Numberphile also has a great video about short and long scales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
It's surprisingly hard to say who is the wealthiest person of all time. For example, how do you compare a modern investor to an ancient emperor without many cash assets but who could claim to "own" their entire realm? For more thoughts on the subject read here: http://time.com/3978055/richest-people-of-all-time-methodology/
Restricting ourselves to the industrial era, the wealthiest people were probably John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who each had somewhere between 300 billion and 400 billion dollars in today's terms. That's a big stack of cash. But it's still not a trillion!
Interestingly, thanks to inflation and to modern investment schemes, some folks think we'll see the first "trillionaire" in our lifetimes:
http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/trillionaire-davos-oxfam-wef-inequality/
For more reading about ancient European cave paintings, try here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/06/romanian-cave-may-boast-central-europes-oldest-cave-art
http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/trenches/coliboaia_cave_romania_charcoal_drawings.html
Even older rock art exists on other continents! Check it out:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685/
The examples of newspaper corrections involving "millions" vs "billions" were originally gathered in these sources:
Brian Kernaghan "Innumeracy" lecture:
http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/lectures/millions-billions-zillions/innumeracy.pdf
"But Who's Counting?" LA Times, 1/31/10
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/opinion/la-oe-smith31-2010jan31
(you can find many more by searching the recent "corrections" archives from major newspapers)
To suggest topics and find out more science facts, follow me on Twitter at @ColinGWest
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Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
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Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.. sextillion pronunciation. How to pronounce, definition by Wiktionary dictionary. sextillion meaning. Powered by MaryTTS
- published: 13 Apr 2015
- views: 2156
Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always gear towards working on bigger goals...
- published: 25 Jul 2016
- views: 1764
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
- published: 17 Feb 2017
- views: 785
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system.
http://mathispower4u.com
- published: 09 Jan 2015
- views: 1270
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten:
Long scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on.
This video is targeted to blind users.
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Orders of magnitude (numbers)
This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities. Each number is given a name in the short scale, which is used in English-speaking countries, as well as a name in the long scale, which is used in some of the countries that do not have English as their national language.
Smaller than 10−100 (one googolth)
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for integer powers of ten, that use the same words with different meanings:
For integers less than a thousand million (< 109) the two scales are identical. From a thousand million up (≥ 109) the two scales diverge, using the same words for different numbers; this can cause misunderstanding.
Countries where the long scale is currently used include most countries in continental Europe and most French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and Portuguese-speaking countries except Brazil. The short scale is now used in most English-speaking and Arabic-speaking countries, in Brazil, and several other countries. Number names are rendered in the language of the country, but are similar everywhere due to shared etymology (e.g., billion is billón in Spanish). Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from both the long and short scales, for example the Indian numbering system.
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Scale
Scale or scales may refer to:
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Trillion
Trillion may refer to:
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Short
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9:43How big is a billion? - Numberphile
How big is a billion? - NumberphileHow big is a billion? - Numberphile
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. More about them at http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9 Numberphile T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/numberphile Other merchandise: https://store.dftba.com/collections/numberphile -
7:41Think About This! Millions and Billions and Trillions (Oh my!)
Think About This! Millions and Billions and Trillions (Oh my!)Think About This! Millions and Billions and Trillions (Oh my!)
These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean? (c) 2016. Click "show more" for additional thoughts and further reading: There are dozens of other ways people have come up with to visualize millions and billions and trillions (and more). You can find many of them on google; here are two of my all time favorites: The "Mega Penny Project" http://nanospace.molecularium.com/attractions/mega_penny/ "Powers of Ten" (Classic 1977 Science Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&t;=5s If you're watching this video and you're not American, there's a chance you're kind of confused right now. That's because the number-naming system I describe here is called the "short scale," and it's DIFFERENT than what's used in continental Europe and other places (In fact, until recently, the long scale was used in the UK as well, and was only officially replaced in 1974). They use what's called the "long scale," and their word "billion" refers to what we would call "trillion"! You can read more about the naming of numbers, and about the short and long scales here: http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/long-and-short-numeric-scales/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales Numberphile also has a great video about short and long scales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ It's surprisingly hard to say who is the wealthiest person of all time. For example, how do you compare a modern investor to an ancient emperor without many cash assets but who could claim to "own" their entire realm? For more thoughts on the subject read here: http://time.com/3978055/richest-people-of-all-time-methodology/ Restricting ourselves to the industrial era, the wealthiest people were probably John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who each had somewhere between 300 billion and 400 billion dollars in today's terms. That's a big stack of cash. But it's still not a trillion! Interestingly, thanks to inflation and to modern investment schemes, some folks think we'll see the first "trillionaire" in our lifetimes: http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/trillionaire-davos-oxfam-wef-inequality/ For more reading about ancient European cave paintings, try here: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/06/romanian-cave-may-boast-central-europes-oldest-cave-art http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/trenches/coliboaia_cave_romania_charcoal_drawings.html Even older rock art exists on other continents! Check it out: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685/ The examples of newspaper corrections involving "millions" vs "billions" were originally gathered in these sources: Brian Kernaghan "Innumeracy" lecture: http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/lectures/millions-billions-zillions/innumeracy.pdf "But Who's Counting?" LA Times, 1/31/10 http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/opinion/la-oe-smith31-2010jan31 (you can find many more by searching the recent "corrections" archives from major newspapers) To suggest topics and find out more science facts, follow me on Twitter at @ColinGWest -
9:15How Big is a Trillion Dollars?
How Big is a Trillion Dollars?How Big is a Trillion Dollars?
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies. -
1:36List of very large named numbers. Thousand - Millitrillion. (1,000 - 10^3,012)
List of very large named numbers. Thousand - Millitrillion. (1,000 - 10^3,012) -
0:42Sextillion Meaning
Sextillion MeaningSextillion Meaning
Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.. sextillion pronunciation. How to pronounce, definition by Wiktionary dictionary. sextillion meaning. Powered by MaryTTS -
5:45Millions, Billions and Trillions - Understand Scale and Size
Millions, Billions and Trillions - Understand Scale and SizeMillions, Billions and Trillions - Understand Scale and Size
Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always gear towards working on bigger goals... -
4:37The Debt - How Big is 20 Trillion Dollars (with troll commentary)
The Debt - How Big is 20 Trillion Dollars (with troll commentary)The Debt - How Big is 20 Trillion Dollars (with troll commentary)
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies. -
3:14Names and Values of Large Numbers - Short Scale
Names and Values of Large Numbers - Short ScaleNames and Values of Large Numbers - Short Scale
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system. http://mathispower4u.com -
2:31What Comes After A Trillion?
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18:30Long and short scales
Long and short scalesLong and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten: Long scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
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How big is a billion? - Numberphile
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. More about them at http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://e...
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Think About This! Millions and Billions and Trillions (Oh my!)
These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean? (c) 2016. Click "show more" for additional thoughts and further reading: There are dozens of other ways people have come up with to visualize millions and billions and trillions (and more). You can find many of them on google; here are two of my all time favorites: The "Mega Penny Project" http://nanospace.molecularium.com/attractions/mega_penny/ "Powers of Ten" (Classic 1977 Science Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&t;=5s If you're watching this video and you're not American, there's a chance you're kind of confused right now. That's because the number-naming system I describe here is called the "short scale," and it's DIFFERENT than what's used ...
published: 24 Jan 2017 -
How Big is a Trillion Dollars?
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
published: 01 Sep 2011 -
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Sextillion Meaning
Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.. sextillion pronunciation. How to pronounce, definition by Wiktionary dictionary. sextillion meaning. Powered by MaryTTS
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Millions, Billions and Trillions - Understand Scale and Size
Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always gear towards working on bigger goals...
published: 25 Jul 2016 -
The Debt - How Big is 20 Trillion Dollars (with troll commentary)
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
published: 17 Feb 2017 -
Names and Values of Large Numbers - Short Scale
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system. http://mathispower4u.com
published: 09 Jan 2015 -
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten: Long scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
published: 30 Aug 2014
How big is a billion? - Numberphile
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 24 May 2012
- views: 1159296
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, bi...
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad.
More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. More about them at http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html
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https://wn.com/How_Big_Is_A_Billion_Numberphile
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad.
More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. More about them at http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html
NUMBERPHILE
Website: http://www.numberphile.com/
Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile
Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub
Videos by Brady Haran
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- published: 24 May 2012
- views: 1159296
Think About This! Millions and Billions and Trillions (Oh my!)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:41
- Updated: 24 Jan 2017
- views: 354
These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean?
(c) 2016. Click "show more" for addi...
These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean?
(c) 2016. Click "show more" for additional thoughts and further reading:
There are dozens of other ways people have come up with to visualize millions and billions and trillions (and more). You can find many of them on google; here are two of my all time favorites:
The "Mega Penny Project"
http://nanospace.molecularium.com/attractions/mega_penny/
"Powers of Ten" (Classic 1977 Science Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&t;=5s
If you're watching this video and you're not American, there's a chance you're kind of confused right now. That's because the number-naming system I describe here is called the "short scale," and it's DIFFERENT than what's used in continental Europe and other places (In fact, until recently, the long scale was used in the UK as well, and was only officially replaced in 1974). They use what's called the "long scale," and their word "billion" refers to what we would call "trillion"!
You can read more about the naming of numbers, and about the short and long scales here:
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/long-and-short-numeric-scales/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Numberphile also has a great video about short and long scales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
It's surprisingly hard to say who is the wealthiest person of all time. For example, how do you compare a modern investor to an ancient emperor without many cash assets but who could claim to "own" their entire realm? For more thoughts on the subject read here: http://time.com/3978055/richest-people-of-all-time-methodology/
Restricting ourselves to the industrial era, the wealthiest people were probably John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who each had somewhere between 300 billion and 400 billion dollars in today's terms. That's a big stack of cash. But it's still not a trillion!
Interestingly, thanks to inflation and to modern investment schemes, some folks think we'll see the first "trillionaire" in our lifetimes:
http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/trillionaire-davos-oxfam-wef-inequality/
For more reading about ancient European cave paintings, try here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/06/romanian-cave-may-boast-central-europes-oldest-cave-art
http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/trenches/coliboaia_cave_romania_charcoal_drawings.html
Even older rock art exists on other continents! Check it out:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685/
The examples of newspaper corrections involving "millions" vs "billions" were originally gathered in these sources:
Brian Kernaghan "Innumeracy" lecture:
http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/lectures/millions-billions-zillions/innumeracy.pdf
"But Who's Counting?" LA Times, 1/31/10
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/opinion/la-oe-smith31-2010jan31
(you can find many more by searching the recent "corrections" archives from major newspapers)
To suggest topics and find out more science facts, follow me on Twitter at @ColinGWest
https://wn.com/Think_About_This_Millions_And_Billions_And_Trillions_(Oh_My_)
These days, big scary numbers like "billion" and "trillion" get thrown around all the time-- but what do they really mean?
(c) 2016. Click "show more" for additional thoughts and further reading:
There are dozens of other ways people have come up with to visualize millions and billions and trillions (and more). You can find many of them on google; here are two of my all time favorites:
The "Mega Penny Project"
http://nanospace.molecularium.com/attractions/mega_penny/
"Powers of Ten" (Classic 1977 Science Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&t;=5s
If you're watching this video and you're not American, there's a chance you're kind of confused right now. That's because the number-naming system I describe here is called the "short scale," and it's DIFFERENT than what's used in continental Europe and other places (In fact, until recently, the long scale was used in the UK as well, and was only officially replaced in 1974). They use what's called the "long scale," and their word "billion" refers to what we would call "trillion"!
You can read more about the naming of numbers, and about the short and long scales here:
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/long-and-short-numeric-scales/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Numberphile also has a great video about short and long scales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
It's surprisingly hard to say who is the wealthiest person of all time. For example, how do you compare a modern investor to an ancient emperor without many cash assets but who could claim to "own" their entire realm? For more thoughts on the subject read here: http://time.com/3978055/richest-people-of-all-time-methodology/
Restricting ourselves to the industrial era, the wealthiest people were probably John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who each had somewhere between 300 billion and 400 billion dollars in today's terms. That's a big stack of cash. But it's still not a trillion!
Interestingly, thanks to inflation and to modern investment schemes, some folks think we'll see the first "trillionaire" in our lifetimes:
http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/trillionaire-davos-oxfam-wef-inequality/
For more reading about ancient European cave paintings, try here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/06/romanian-cave-may-boast-central-europes-oldest-cave-art
http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/trenches/coliboaia_cave_romania_charcoal_drawings.html
Even older rock art exists on other continents! Check it out:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685/
The examples of newspaper corrections involving "millions" vs "billions" were originally gathered in these sources:
Brian Kernaghan "Innumeracy" lecture:
http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/lectures/millions-billions-zillions/innumeracy.pdf
"But Who's Counting?" LA Times, 1/31/10
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/opinion/la-oe-smith31-2010jan31
(you can find many more by searching the recent "corrections" archives from major newspapers)
To suggest topics and find out more science facts, follow me on Twitter at @ColinGWest
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How Big is a Trillion Dollars?
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- Updated: 01 Sep 2011
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Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the Uni...
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
https://wn.com/How_Big_Is_A_Trillion_Dollars
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
- published: 01 Sep 2011
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List of very large named numbers. Thousand - Millitrillion. (1,000 - 10^3,012)
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- Duration: 1:36
- Updated: 15 Nov 2016
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A list of very large number names up to 10^3000 using the Conway-Wechsler System and the short scale.
In integers of 1,000: million,billion,trillion....
A list of very large number names up to 10^3000 using the Conway-Wechsler System and the short scale.
In integers of 1,000: million,billion,trillion....
https://wn.com/List_Of_Very_Large_Named_Numbers._Thousand_Millitrillion._(1,000_10^3,012)
Sextillion Meaning
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Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian...
Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.. sextillion pronunciation. How to pronounce, definition by Wiktionary dictionary. sextillion meaning. Powered by MaryTTS
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Video shows what sextillion means. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.. sextillion pronunciation. How to pronounce, definition by Wiktionary dictionary. sextillion meaning. Powered by MaryTTS
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Millions, Billions and Trillions - Understand Scale and Size
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- Duration: 5:45
- Updated: 25 Jul 2016
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Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always ...
Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always gear towards working on bigger goals...
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Millions, Billions,Trillions to a Centillion - Understand numbers to understand Scale and Size of everything around us. With a proper Comparison, we can always gear towards working on bigger goals...
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The Debt - How Big is 20 Trillion Dollars (with troll commentary)
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 17 Feb 2017
- views: 785
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the Uni...
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
https://wn.com/The_Debt_How_Big_Is_20_Trillion_Dollars_(With_Troll_Commentary)
Explanation of large sums of money and the way the United States Government is able to spend astronomical sums of money with apparent ease. Note that in the United States we use the "short scale" system for large numbers where one thousand is 1,000, one million is 1,000,000, one billion is 1,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Canada and some others use the "long scale". I made this video to illustrate problems with the US economy and in doing so referred to the number system used in the US. If it offends you that our number system is not the same as that used in your country please accept my humble apologies.
- published: 17 Feb 2017
- views: 785
Names and Values of Large Numbers - Short Scale
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 09 Jan 2015
- views: 1270
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system.
http://mathispower4u.com
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system.
http://mathispower4u.com
https://wn.com/Names_And_Values_Of_Large_Numbers_Short_Scale
This video goes over the names of and values of large numbers expressed as powers of ten using the short scale numbering system.
http://mathispower4u.com
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What Comes After A Trillion?
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 14 Aug 2015
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Thousands, millions, billions, trillions - What comes next? Justin DuPuie from Fire Of Learning explains
Thousands, millions, billions, trillions - What comes next? Justin DuPuie from Fire Of Learning explains
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Long and short scales
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The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten:
Long scale: Every new term greater...
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten:
Long scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on.
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The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten:
Long scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on.
This video is targeted to blind users.
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