What is the difference between billiard and billion?
billiard | billion |
A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
Pertaining to the game of billiards.
A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
As numerals the difference between billiard and billion
is that billiard is 1015, a million milliards while billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.As a noun billiard
is a shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.billiard
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* billiardthSee also
* Previous': billion. ' Next : trillion. * Symbolic: 1015 = 1,000,000,000,000,000billion
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