Trillion

One trillion dollars by pagetutor. Small object at the left shows the realtive size of a human body. Trillion means large amount of anything.

Value of a trillion may mean either \( 10^{12} \) or \( 10^{18} \) .

For this ambiguity, term trillion should not be used to denote any number in any scientific article; at least, if it is not supplied with definition, indicating, which of the two meanings above it corresponds to.

Errors
This term is often used by authors, who cannot estimate even an order of magnitude of a quantities they are talking about. Not so many people can say, how many "zeros" appear in the native writing of one trillion . In the Russian literature, at least since year 2010, trillion appears as 10^12

In German and French literature, it refers to 10^18

Perhaps, at least in some cases, the authors use the term just for confusion, although, in some case, they may just repeat someone's statement without any attempt to understand the meaning .

Fraud
Term Trillion is highly concussive and, therefore, can be used for frauds. It may refers to 10^12 as well as to 10^18, dependently on the preferences of the interpreter.

For this confusion, it should be highly efficient in the motivated reasoning (sometimes called also female logics).

For example, according to the the reparation and fines after the Fukushima disaster may cost to the taxpayers a 10 trillion yen , id est, from \(10^{13}\)yen to \(10^{19}\)yen. Roughly, the last estimate corresponds to one tenth of the amount of money, shown in the picture at right; of order of a dozen Fukushima-like nuclear plants have to explode in order to get the cost comparable to the amount shown in the figure.

The play on the difference of the meanings of the word trillion may beat all other kinds of bysiness, as the norm of the interest is \(10^{6}\) (instead of several percent in a usual kinds of business). In this sense, trillion is one of the most confusional terms used in the literature.

Examples
2020.01.05, in negotiation with the Iran administration, Donald Trump indicates, that the USA may spend two trillion dollars for weapon to respond the Iran aggression.

Keywords
Confusion, Demagody, Dialectics, Donald Trump, Female logics, Motivated reasoning, Number, Uncertainty

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