Trillion
Trillion – large amount of anything. This term is often used by authors, who cannot estimate even an order of magnitude of a quantities they are talking about.
Usually, value of a trillion varies from $10^{12}$ to $10^{18}$ [2][3]. For example, according to the the reparation and fines after the Fukushima disaster may cost to the taxpayers a 10 trillion yen [4], 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.
References
- ↑ http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
- ↑ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trillion.html In the American system, one trillion equals $10^{12}$. In the French and German systems, one trillion equals $10^{18}$.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion
1,000,000,000,000 (one million million; ; SI prefix: tera-) for all short scale countries
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million million million; ; SI prefix: exa-) for all long scale countries
- ↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121108n1.html AFP-Jiji, Kyodo, Bloomberg. Tepco doubles estimated costs// Nuke disaster mop-up may hit ¥10 trillion. Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012
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