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To: dennisw
"one quadrillion one hundred and forty four trillion dollars "

The first time I've seen the term "quadrillion" applied to dollars in anything other than a comedy sketch. Scary.

10 posted on 09/14/2009 5:56:07 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: cookcounty

A few weeks back, my 9 year old asked me “...well, what comes after 999 Trillion then Dad”? “...honey, it’s called a quadrillion and you won’t have to use words such as those, until you major in Physics and Math...” Seeing it in Print certainly makes me feel uneasy also, I completely concur. (The difference between 1 Billion and 1 Trillion is staggering for the average human to even fathom.)


22 posted on 09/14/2009 2:08:33 PM PDT by Pagey (B. Hussein Obama has no experience running anything, except his pedestrian mouth.)
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