Home › Forums › Financial Markets/Economics › What is a trillion anyway?? Who gives a damn? › briansd1 wrote:I don’t like
[quote=briansd1]I don’t like the bi in billion because that implies two and the tri in trillion implies three. [/quote]
You have to think like an engineer in groups of 3 orders of magnitude:
1,000 is the 0th level.
1,000,000 is the 1st level.
1,000,000,000 is the 2nd level
1,000,000,000,000 is the 3rd level, etc.
Would probably be cleaner to call 0 – 999 the 0th level and 1,000 the 1st level (million) and 1,000,000 a billion, 1,000,000,000 a trillion.
