What is a 'Trillion'?
Hi guys,
Got a question from a mate who was reading info on GPS systems. He came up with an interesting quote;
“The accuracy of the caesium clock is soooooo good that it will only lose 1 second over 30000 years.” He then went on to say that it is equivalent to 1 nanosecond or one trillionth of a second.
I knew that…….
What we want to know is how many zero’s is that after the 1, or to the power of what? We ask this because where we come from a billion is a thousand millions but elsewhere it is ‘supposedly’ a million millions……..etc etc.
I have been known to quote ‘squillions’ when referring to girls and hours on type.
Cheers