I noted the term "sextillion" at the bottom of the table in the link
below. That called to mind a little factoid I've carried in my head for
years and years and the only time I've heard "sextillion" in usage...
the weight of the earth is six sextillion tons.
Now I don't know whose version of "ton" is meant here... :-)
Chuck Norcutt
SwissPace wrote:
> I believe the american trillion like the billion differs from what
> europe thinks it means
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
>
> so maybe 347 trillion is not so far from 2 trillion.
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