Billion vs Gillion - 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.
(rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard' and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US ' billion .
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As numerals the difference between billion and gillion
is that billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109 while gillion is a thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion.billion
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