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Okay, not actually that interesting.
Here's something that is interesting though: In looking it up myself, I discovered that Billion and Trillion are not universal terms, and while in America 1 billion has 9 zeros, in the UK/ parts of EU, it has 12, and from there the number of zeros increases by 6 rather than 3. So 1 trillion in America has 12 zeros, but in Europe it has 18!
UK uses the USA version for ~~million~~ billion so 9 zeroes, at least for our national statistics.
USA version (pretty sure also UK version) of million has 6 zeros. Billion is the first to be different
Ah that was a typo. I meant billion
Oh wow, what a horrible thing to not have a standard. Good job, global community!