Billion - Billón

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

I have found that (contrary to the idea of mathematics as a universal language) there is a number in Spanish that is not the same in English:

Un billón = Un millón de millones (One million millions = 1 000 000 000 000)

One billion = Mil millones (One thousand millions = 1 000 000 000)


In Spanish, "un trillón" = "un millón de millones de millones" = 1 000 000 000 000 000

What is a trillion in English?

[xchic]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

I have found that (contrary to the idea of mathematics as a universal language) there is a number in Spanish that is not the same in English:

Un billón = Un millón de millones (One million millions = 1 000 000 000 000)

One billion = Mil millones (One thousand millions = 1 000 000 000)


In Spanish, "un trillón" = "un millón de millones de millones" = 1 000 000 000 000 000

What is a trillion in English?

Actually I think the difference is more complicated!

I always understood a billion (UK) to be a million million, but in the US I think it's a thousand million

A trillion in the UK has 18 zeros - so 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 or a billion million

in the US I think it has just 12 zeros - so 1.000.000.000.000, so in UK terms a billion!

[pjt33]

A billion is always 10^9 in the US, and often 10^9 in the UK nowadays; however, in older British sources and the usage of some Brits today it's still 10^12.

[bobjenkins]

million - 6 ceros
billion - 9 ceros
trillion - 12 ceros

Así es en los EEUU