Cultural cartography

Short and long scale usage throughout the world

Depending on the nations, various ways are used to form the names of big numbers: the long numeric scale and the short numeric scale.

In the long scale, every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by 6). In the short scale, every new word greater than a million is one thousand times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by 3

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