Stephen wrote:
> A million is a thousand times a thousand.
> A billion is a million times a million.

You still stopped before "trillion". What's a trillion in the UK, then?

> BTW a myriad is ten thousand .

It's sometimes funny here. In chinese, there are distinct words (like 
myriad or milliard) for other powers of 10 also, so she often has to 
stop and think for some time to figure out what something like "a 
hundred and six thousand" is in digits.

I was talking more
one, thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, ....

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