According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
A number represented as a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1,000,000,000,000) If you have a bucket that holds 100 thousand marbles, you would need 10 million of those same buckets to hold a trillion marbles! That's a lot of marbles
the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros; "in England they call a quintillion a trillion"
the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; "in England they call a trillion a billion"
one quintillion in Great Britain
one million million in the United States
a million billion, and billion is a million million
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How much is a trillion? A million dollar pile of stacked $100 dollar bills would be 2 metres tall; a one trillion dollar pile would be over 40 times the height of Mt. Everest.
One thousand billions; rather than say 1,000 billion we say 1 trillion. For example, if we increased a sum of money by $1 billion at a time, our counting would sound like this: "...$998 billion, $999 billion, $1 trillion."
1012 in scientific notation. You can also write it as a 1 with 12 zeros after it: 1,000,000,000,000 or a million million.