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Gillion vs Trillion - What's the difference?

gillion | trillion |

As numerals the difference between gillion and trillion

is that gillion is a thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion while trillion is {{cx|US|modern|_|British|Australian|short scale|lang=en}} A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.

gillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • (rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard' and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US ' billion .
    • English cardinal numbers

    trillion

    English

    (Long and short scales)

    Numeral

    (head)
  • A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
  • A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.

    • See also

    * (short scale) Previous': billion. ' Next : quadrillion * (long scale) Previous': billiard. ' Next : trilliard * ISO prefix: tera-