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See also:Billion

English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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English numbers(edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106) ←  100,000,000 (108)1,000,000,000 (109)1012  → [a],[b]1015  → [a],[b]
   Cardinal:billion,milliard,thousand million
   Ordinal:billionth,milliardth,thousand-millionth
   Multiplier:billionfold,milliardfold,thousand-millionfold
   Metric collective prefix:giga-
   Metric fractional prefix:nano-
   Number of years:giga-annum,gigayear
English numbers(edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106)[a],[b],[c] ←  1,000,000,000 (109)10121015  → [a],[b]1018  → [a],[b]
   Cardinal:trillion,billion
   Ordinal:trillionth,billionth
   Multiplier:trillionfold,billionfold
   Metric collective prefix:tera-
   Metric fractional prefix:pico-

Etymology

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FromFrenchbillion, frombi-(“two”) +‎-illion.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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billion (pluralbillions)

cardinal number
109Previous:million
Next:trillion
cardinal number
1012Previous:milliard
Next:billiard
  2. Either of two large amounts:
    2. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) athousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,0002): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
      Synonyms:milliard,thousand million
      • 1921 January 24, “National Finances”, inDevon and Exeter Gazette, page 5:
        At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to sevenbillion pounds (£7,000,000,000).
      • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, inThe Economist‎[4], volume407, number8837, page74:
        In America alone, people spent $170billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
      • 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, inModern Railways, page 9:
        However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late andbillions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual
      • 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, inCNN Business‎[5]:
        Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500billion yen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.
      • 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays” (18617), inScientific Reports, volume13, page 1:
        The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1billion visits by February 2023.
      • 2025 February 8, “COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF”, inUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York‎[6], page 2:
        Plaintiff States also receivebillions of dollars in funds every year directly from Treasury through BFS under federal grant programs.
    4. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) Amillion (times a)million (logic: 1,000,0002): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1012); a thousand milliard.
      Synonym:trillion(short scale)
      • 1778, Francis Maseres, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series[...]”, inPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society‎[7], volume lxviii, number xli:
        n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = abillion, or the square of a million
      • 2000 November 8, Stephen Ladyman, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, inHansard‎[8]:
        There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1billion. By that I mean a Britishbillion, because when I was little I was told that abillion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.
  4. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
    Near-synonyms:gazillion;see alsoThesaurus:zillion
    There werebillions of people at the concert.
abbreviations

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Derived terms

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Related terms

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  • trillion, coined at same time
  • zillion, coined after the series million, billion, trillion, quadrillion (modern slang)
  • gazillion, from same origin
  • -illion, from same origin

Descendants

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Translations

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a thousand million (1,000,000,000); a milliard
a million million; 1,000,000,000,000—see alsotrillion
(plural) a very large number
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See also

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Danish

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Noun

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billion

  1. 1012

Declension

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Declension ofbillion
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativebillionbillionenbillionerbillionerne
genitivebillionsbillionensbillionersbillionernes

French

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French numbers(edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106) ←  1,000,000,000 (109)10121015  → [a],[b]1018  → [a],[b]
   Cardinal:unbillion,millemilliards
   Ordinal:billionième,millièmedemilliardième
French Wikipedia article on1012

Etymology

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Frombi-(“two”) +‎-illion;i.e., amillionmillion.

Coined byJehan Adam in 1475 asby-million.[1][2][3]Rendered asbyllion byNicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.[4][5]

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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billion m (pluralbillions)

  1. trillion(1012)
    Synonym:mille milliards
  2. (dated)billion(109)
    Synonym:milliard

Related terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^Bibliothèque St Geneviève, Paris, MS Français 3143 - original French manuscript by Jehan Adam
  2. ^“Jehan Adam, Traicté en arismetique pour la practique par gectouers… Parchemin. XVe siècle (1475).”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 3 July 2008 (last accessed), archived fromthe original on30 September 2007
  3. ^Lynn Thorndike, “The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, A.D. 1475,” Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century
  4. ^Chuquet, Nicolas (1484),Triparty en la science des nombres (ISSN 9012-9458), Bologna (Italy): Aristide Marre, published1880
       Idem (1 March 2008 (last accessed)), “Nicolas Chuquet's manuscript”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2], Published by www.miakinen.net
  5. ^Idem (1 March 2008 (last accessed)), “Nicolas Chuquet's chapter”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[3], Transcription by Michael Florencetime

Further reading

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Middle French

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Noun

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billion m (pluralbillions)

  1. billion, a million-million, 1012
    • 1520, Étienne de La Roche,L'arismethique novellement composee,page 6:
      ungbillion vault mille milliers de millions
      a billion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of millions
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