r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 7d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/twankyfive 7d ago

Yillions of dollars. It's a really big number you don't know because it goes to a different school.

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u/port443 6d ago

Just to put it in normal number terms:

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kilo (K) mega (M) giga (G) tera (T) peta (P) exa (E) zetta (Z) yotta (Y)
thousand million billion trillion quadrillion quintillion sextillion septillion

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u/port443 6d ago

Maybe in the 1950s. Billion has been the same for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and all English-primary countries for decades