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How big is a billion? - Numberphile
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Numberphile explains the long and short scales for naming large numbers, covering millions, billions, trillions, milliards and the Greek myriad, with James Grime and Tony Padilla.
HN links it whenever a thread hits the ambiguity of whether a billion is 10^9 or 10^12.
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