In England they call a trillion a billion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In England they call a quintillion a trillion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term trillion makes all of this somewhat hard to grasp. From Wordnik.com. [David Paul: Those Wall Street Bonuses Come at a High Price] Reference
I've read that mathematicians do not even use the term trillion!. From Wordnik.com. [Polls Put Obama Ahead Nationally, Race Is Close In Key States] Reference
You don't know what a trillion is and neither did 1. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Money] Reference
We all went to school and we learned a trillion is a million million or a thousand billion. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Money] Reference
Or in other words, a trillion is a million million dollars. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Let us say for a moment I stole 2 trillion from the pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » George Bush on Jeb Bush:] Reference
Geez seriously the word trillion was an unheard of word when I was younger. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Come on khunt, even you can understand 5 trillion is less than 25 trillion?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Wall Street Bankers And Investors Fund New Media Platform For Gov. Bob McDonnell’s SOTU Response] Reference
As to your military metaphor you may be in your foxhole but the 10 trillion is a tank. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » CBO Analysis Highlights Staggering “Output Gap” Absent Fiscal Stimulus] Reference
And debt is a new phenomena-when the word trillion got into the lexicon, things changed. From Wordnik.com. [Let Freedom Ring] Reference
As much as we're tainted by the word trillion all over the place, it's still a lot of money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2009] Reference
£16.3 trillion is a lot of money, could it in fact be enough to bankrupt the EU?. From Wordnik.com. [The disappearing £16.3 trillion (update)] Reference
But a trillion, a trillion is a stack 679 miles high. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Pulls The Plug On Mortgage Purchases] Reference
Imagine what he will call a trillion dollars to our bankers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2008] Reference
Even in a time where a trillion is the new billion, that's a lot of money. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. News] Reference
Dennis asked how I could pay for all this and I said "could you break a trillion?". From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Street Examiner] Reference
The fiscal loss caused by car accidents in 1999 amounted to W8. 1213 trillion, which is about. From Wordnik.com. [english.chosun.com : Total] Reference
SHELL: You know, obesity if what people in the drug industry call the trillion dollar disease. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2002] Reference
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