Billion

There are many translations of FIGU works created by many from all over the world. Which may have used the short scale billion in the translation of any numbers listed in the text. Often the number is presented in text form which maintains the value intended. Example ten million million light years.

The correct usage of Billion for FIGU works is long scale billion. To keep consistency and common transferable scale between texts for the readers comfort.

Long Scale - Billion = 1,000,000,000,000
Short Scale - Billion = 1,000,000,000 ^{(Not for FIGU translations please)}

Long Scale - Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Short Scale - Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 ^{(Not for FIGU translations please)}

Long Scale - Quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Short Scale - Quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000 ^{(Not for FIGU translations please)}

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Fair: A fairly large population of Earth uses the short scale. Play a movie and they boast about being a billionaire or look at the magazine article about the rich person list etc. But the FIGU texts use long scale billion, confuses all readers when referring to the big numbers in some of the texts. See milliard and billiard, sometimes used in texts, in table below.

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The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for integer powers of ten, that use the same words with different meanings:

Long scale billion means a million millions (10¹²), trillion means a million billions (10¹⁸)

Short scale billion means a thousand millions (10⁹), trillion means a thousand billions (10¹²)

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The relationship between the numeric values and the corresponding names in the two scales can be described as:

Value in scientific notation	Metric prefix		Value in positional notation	Short scale		Long scale
	Prefix	Symbol		Name	Logic	Name	Alternative name	Logic
100			1	One		One		1×1,000,0000
101	Deca	D or da	10	Ten		Ten		10×1,000,0000
102	Hecto	h	100	Hundred		Hundred		100×1,000,0000
103	Kilo	k	1,000	Thousand	1×1,000×1,0000	Thousand		1,000×1,000,0000
106	Mega	M	1,000,000	Million	1×1,000×1,0001	Million		1×1,000,0001
109	Giga	G	1,000,000,000	Billion	1×1,000×1,0002	Thousand Million	Milliard	1,000×1,000,0001
1012	Tera	T	1,000,000,000,000	Trillion	1×1,000×1,0003	Billion		1×1,000,0002
1015	Peta	P	1,000,000,000,000,000	Quadrillion	1×1,000×1,0004	Thousand Billion	Billiard	1,000×1,000,0002
1018	Exa	E	1,000,000,000,000,000,000	Quintillion	1×1,000×1,0005	Trillion		1×1,000,0003
1021	Zetta	Z	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000	Sextillion	1×1,000×1,0006	Thousand Trillion	Trilliard	1,000×1,000,0003
1024	Yotta	Y	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000	Septillion	1×1,000×1,0007	Quadrillion		1×1,000,0004
Etc.				To next named order of magnitude: multiply by 1,000		To next named order of magnitude: multiply by 1,000,000