Million Times Million

Million Times Million

By Susam Pal on 03 Jul 2025

Is a million times a million a billion or is it a trillion? For my entire childhood, it was a billion, only for me to grow up and realise, as an adult, that it had better be a trillion!

Growing Up With the Long Scale

As a child, I stumbled upon an old dictionary lying around our house, and that was where I discovered the names of large numbers. The dictionary used the long scale system, which is based on powers of a million. According to the long scale system,

a million times a million is a billion,

a million times a million times a million is a trillion,

a million multiplied by itself four times is a quadrillion,

multiply it five times and we get a quintillion,

and so on.

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