Billion vs Gigaton - What's the difference?
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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 a numeral billion
is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.As a noun gigaton is
a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.billion
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