What is the difference between million and billion?
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The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.
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.
Billion is a see also of million.
As a noun billion is
{{context|us|modern british & australian|[[w:long and short scales|short scale]]|lang=en}} a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.million
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* (short scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : billion * (long scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : milliard * (Ordinal) millionth * ISO prefix: mega-Derived terms
* like a million bucks * megamillion * millionary * millionfold * millionth * millionaire * never in a million years * one in a million * one million * thanks a millionbillion
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(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion 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.}}