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    If a billion follows a million, and a trillion follows a billion, what number follows a trillion?

    Question #23827. Asked by Jud. (Nov 03 02 3:49 AM)


    Bryce

    		One trillion and one.

    Nov 03 02, 5:43 AM
    Kainantu

    		This doesn't answer the question
    but thought you might like to be amazed as I {was;}

    ... A Pentium 4 processor today has 42 million transistors. The 'TeraHertz' transistor will be able to switch on and off more than a trillion times per second. ...
    Read that again. A second!!!
    www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/14953.html

    Faster than a lizard up a gumtree
    Granny in a wheelchair...
    .
    Heard that one before....
    K

    Nov 03 02, 8:03 AM
    Brainy Blonde

    		Not reading the question literally and according to this site,
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LargeNumber.html
    quadrillion is the word used in America. Britain did not have one, but are now
    using the American system.


    Nov 03 02, 3:19 PM

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