Well firstly there’s no europe-wide standard. There’s long scale and short scale, the US and many other countries use short scale (billion is 1000 millions). It usually goes by language, but there are exceptions: Spanish and Mexican Spanish are both long scale while USAn Spanish is short scale.
Short scale goes: million, billion, trillion
Long scale goes: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard… etc.
Then in my language it goes: million, milliard, trillion, quadrillion. We use short scale but replace billion with milliard (miljard actually for the local spelling)
There are also other systems. Once you get to 10^5, India has names for every second power of ten rather than every third power. lakh is 1,00,000, crore is 1,00,00,000, etc. It’s funny writing it out with double zeroes instead of triple lol
Well firstly there’s no europe-wide standard. There’s long scale and short scale, the US and many other countries use short scale (billion is 1000 millions). It usually goes by language, but there are exceptions: Spanish and Mexican Spanish are both long scale while USAn Spanish is short scale.
Short scale goes: million, billion, trillion
Long scale goes: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard… etc.
Then in my language it goes: million, milliard, trillion, quadrillion. We use short scale but replace billion with milliard (miljard actually for the local spelling)
There are also other systems. Once you get to 10^5, India has names for every second power of ten rather than every third power. lakh is 1,00,000, crore is 1,00,00,000, etc. It’s funny writing it out with double zeroes instead of triple lol