{"id":100,"date":"2016-08-01T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/?post_type=chapter&p=100"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:19:29","slug":"%c2%a7129-english-number-names-beyond-one-million","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/chapter\/%c2%a7129-english-number-names-beyond-one-million\/","title":{"raw":"\u00a7129. English Number Names Beyond One Million","rendered":"\u00a7129. English Number Names Beyond One Million"},"content":{"raw":"

Wherever English is spoken, the figure 1,000,000 (106<\/sup>) has the English name of million<\/i> (< MF milion<\/i> < OIt. milione<\/i>, an augmentative derived from L mille<\/b> (1,000). Etymologically, then, a million is a \u201cbig thousand.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Number words beyond a million are formed from Latin numeral prefixes plus the spurious base -(i)llion<\/b> (by analogy from million<\/i>). The nomenclature is confusing, for two reasons:<\/p>\r\n

1. The numerical values differ in American and British usage.<\/p>\r\n

2. The words themselves combine two sets of standard Latin prefixes. (If the usual Latin sequence had been followed, quintillion<\/em> and sextillion<\/em> would be quinquillion<\/em> and sexillion<\/em>.)<\/p>\r\n

Except for the British milliard<\/i>, which was adopted from French in 1823, most of these words date from the late 17th century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/td>\r\nAMERICAN USAGE<\/strong><\/td>\r\nBRITISH USAGE<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nNumber of groups of three 0's after 1,000<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nPowers of a million<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
109<\/sup><\/td>\r\nbillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n2<\/td>\r\nmilliard<\/i><\/td>\r\n--<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1012<\/sup><\/td>\r\ntrillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n3<\/td>\r\nbillion<\/i><\/td>\r\n2<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1014<\/sup><\/td>\r\nquadrillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n4<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1018<\/sup><\/td>\r\nquintillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n5<\/td>\r\ntrillion<\/i> (1690)<\/td>\r\n3<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1021<\/sup><\/td>\r\nsextillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n6<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1024<\/sup><\/td>\r\nseptillion<\/em><\/td>\r\n7<\/td>\r\nquadrillion<\/i> (1674)<\/td>\r\n4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","rendered":"

Wherever English is spoken, the figure 1,000,000 (106<\/sup>) has the English name of million<\/i> (< MF milion<\/i> < OIt. milione<\/i>, an augmentative derived from L mille<\/b> (1,000). Etymologically, then, a million is a \u201cbig thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Number words beyond a million are formed from Latin numeral prefixes plus the spurious base -(i)llion<\/b> (by analogy from million<\/i>). The nomenclature is confusing, for two reasons:<\/p>\n

1. The numerical values differ in American and British usage.<\/p>\n

2. The words themselves combine two sets of standard Latin prefixes. (If the usual Latin sequence had been followed, quintillion<\/em> and sextillion<\/em> would be quinquillion<\/em> and sexillion<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Except for the British milliard<\/i>, which was adopted from French in 1823, most of these words date from the late 17th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nAMERICAN USAGE<\/strong><\/td>\nBRITISH USAGE<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNumber of groups of three 0’s after 1,000<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPowers of a million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
109<\/sup><\/td>\nbillion<\/em><\/td>\n2<\/td>\nmilliard<\/i><\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1012<\/sup><\/td>\ntrillion<\/em><\/td>\n3<\/td>\nbillion<\/i><\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1014<\/sup><\/td>\nquadrillion<\/em><\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1018<\/sup><\/td>\nquintillion<\/em><\/td>\n5<\/td>\ntrillion<\/i> (1690)<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1021<\/sup><\/td>\nsextillion<\/em><\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1024<\/sup><\/td>\nseptillion<\/em><\/td>\n7<\/td>\nquadrillion<\/i> (1674)<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Chapter 20: Numerals in Greek and Latin","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[52],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-100","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":89,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/100\/revisions\/573"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/89"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/100\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}