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The number where your brain quietly gives up and just says 'a lot'.
means The number equal to a thousand billions, written as 1 followed by twelve zeros (1,000,000,000,000).
from Built in the 16th-17th century by French mathematicians who took 'billion' (bi- + million, meaning 'the second power of a million') and swapped in tri- for 'third.' So a trillion is literally 'a million to the third power' — million, billion, trillion is just counting upward by multiplying another million each time, which is exactly why the zeros pile up so fast your intuition taps out.
- seconds to pass
- about 31,700 years, not a long weekend
- stacked dollars
- a trillion $1 bills reach nearly to the moon
- global debt scale
- world debt now measured in hundreds of trillions
- name origin
- from Latin tri, meaning the third power of a million