At least up to a few years ago, the British did not use the term billion when talking about money. They preferred “thousand million”. It’s too easy to think of 1 billion as 2 million just as a bicycle has two wheels and 1 trillion sounds like 3 million just as a tricycle has three wheels. The numbers billion and trillion are just so enormous.
Oh my goodness, my apologies, Freee-dame. I see what you did now that Rusty pointed it out. Thanks, Rusty. I didn’t get my nap today! I’ll blame that lol.
A billion dollar bills laid end to end would stretch 96,900 miles, winding around the Earth nearly four times. A trillion dollars laid in the same manner would stretch for 96,906,656 miles, a distance farther than the sun. If you laid one billion dollars side by side like tile, they would cover about four square miles. A trillion dollars laid out the same way would cover approximately 3,992 miles, or 1,000 square miles larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Finally, how long would it take to spend each amount? If you spent $40 per second, around the clock, it would take you 289 days to exhaust a billion dollars. If you did the same thing with a trillion dollars, it would take you 792.5 years to go broke.
https://www.krwg.org/local-viewpoints/2020-09-21/how-much-is-a-trillion-dollars
And US is 30 trillion in debt.