Calibration Resources

Hierarchy of Decimal Numbers

Number	Name	How many
0	zero
1	one	*
2	two	**
3	three	***
4	four	****
5	five	*****
6	six	******
7	seven	*******
8	eight	********
9	nine	*********
10	ten	**********
20	twenty	two tens
30	thirty	three tens
40	forty	four tens
50	fifty	five tens
60	sixty	six tens
70	seventy	seven tens
80	eighty	eight tens
90	ninety	nine tens

 

Number	Name	How Many
100	one hundred	ten tens
1,000	one thousand	ten hundreds
10,000	ten thousand	ten thousands
100,000	one hundred thousand	one hundred thousands
1,000,000	one million	one thousand thousands

Some people use a comma to mark every 3 digits. It just keeps track of the digits and makes the numbers easier to read.

Beyond a million, the names of the numbers differ depending where you live. The places are grouped by thousands in America and France, by the millions in Great Britain and Germany.

Name	American-French	English-German
million	1,000,000	1,000,000
billion	1,000,000,000 (a thousand millions)	1,000,000,000,000 (a million millions)
trillion	1 with 12 zeros	1 with 18 zeros
quadrillion	1 with 15 zeros	1 with 24 zeros
quintillion	1 with 18 zeros	1 with 30 zeros
sextillion	1 with 21 zeros	1 with 36 zeros
septillion	1 with 24 zeros	1 with 42 zeros
octillion	1 with 27 zeros	1 with 48 zeros
googol	1 with 100 zeros
googolplex	1 with a google of zeros