What amount is $4,000,000,000,000?

[Peter Gulia]

What amount is $4,000,000,000,000 if a writer uses only the “4” and replaces the many zeroes with one word?

[CuseFan]

Isn't that trillion? The 7-9 zeros are the millions with 10-12 then billions so next comes trillions.

[Peter Gulia]

Thought so, but I’m glad to have a smart person check me.

In the last section of yesterday’s 389-page markup of title XI (Ways and Means) for a budget-reconciliation bill, that amount would be the proposed increase in the US debt limit—31 U.S.C. § 3101(b).

[david rigby]

Better than counting zeros (because a number might not have any zeros), you can count the commas:  one million has 2 commas, 1 billion has 3 commas, 1 trillion has 4 commas, etc.

[Paul I]

By way of an analogy, $4 trillion is a stack of $1 bills that extends 32,564 miles beyond the moon.  

If you wish to count by weight, that would be 88,152,472 pounds of $1 bills.

[CuseFan]

23 hours ago, Peter Gulia said:

glad to have a smart person check

Flattered, I occasionally get things right, you know, blind squirrel!

[BG5150]

I think in some European countries they would call it 4 billions.