In some countries and languages using the long scale: // Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a thousand millions. ...

one billiard = = one short scale quadrillion. // Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a thousand millions. ...

In the traditional long scale usage of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia, this word is not found, with the meaning of a number, being replaced by "thousand billion". // Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a thousand millions. ...

In modern English usage, it is replaced by the short scale "quadrillion". // Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a thousand millions. ...

See also

• Long and short scales
• Number names
• Names of large numbers
• Trilliard