On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:07:22 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

>Invisible wrote:
>> You mean "because America says so"? [Why don't *they* just change to the 
>> correct way?]
>
>So what would a trillion be?
>
>In the US, every third power of 10 has its own word. Makes sense to me.

A hundred is ten times ten.
A thousand is a hundred times ten.
A million is a thousand times a thousand.
A billion is a million times a million.

Makes sense to me :)

BTW a myriad is ten thousand .

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Regards
     Stephen

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