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by boatwoodwater 2799 days ago
Historically, in British English, 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion.

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for more