# Terms for Quantities

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-for-quantities/255584>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-for-quantities/255584 "2004-07-17T15:31:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-for-quantities/255584/1 "2004-07-17T15:31:10Z")

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The “trilliard” thread (elsewhere in GQ) got me to wondering if there are other terms for powers-of-ten quantities that I don’t know about. Here’s the list I’m aware of, with the gaps:

```auto

1 (obvious)
10 tens
100 hundreds
1,000 thousands
10,000 myriads
100,000 lakhs (borrowed from Hindi)
1,000,000 millions
10,000,000 _____
100,000,000 _____
1,000,000,000 billions
10,000,000,000 _____
etc.

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Are there any standard terms, short of “hundreds of millions” and the like, for those larger quantities?

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terms-for-quantities/255584/2 "2004-07-17T15:51:32Z")

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You’ve got lakh, and the Indians will do you “crore” for ten million as well.