Trillion

A trillion is equal to 10¹² (S), 10¹⁸ (L). Written out in full decimal form, the short scale trillion is 1,000,000,000,000.

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It takes 77 days + 3 hours for Niagara Falls to spill a trillion gallons of water.
The Earth has around a trillion fish.
Alpha Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is over 26 trillion miles away from each other.
The human body contains about 50 trillion cells.
A trillion words is about 11 million books.
A sphere with a trillion gallons of water is 1.9 km wide.
A tower of a trillion people would reach 1.9 billion km high, past the asteroid belt.
Counting to a trillion would take 200,000 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years, a bit before the onset of agriculture.
- Trillion Minutes Ago (1.9 Million Years): A bit before early humans
- Trillion Hours Ago (114 Million Years): Dinosaurs were still around
- Trillion Days Ago (~2.7 Billion Years): A bit before multicellular life spawned
A trillion pennies in a cube is larger than a football field.
SI Prefix: tera- (S)/exa- (L)
SI Reciprocal Prefix: pico- (S)/atto- (L)