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Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
| [a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109)
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[a], [b] ← 1012
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1015
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1018 → [a], [b]
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1021 → [a], [b]
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Cardinal (Brazil): um quatrilhão, um quadrilhão
Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): mil biliões
Ordinal (Brazil): quatrilionésimo, quadrilionésimo
Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo bilionésimo, milésimo de bilionésimo
Fractional (Brazil): quatrilionésimo, quadrilionésimo, um quatrilhão avos, um quadrilhão avos
Fractional (Portugal): milésimo bilionésimo, milésimo de bilionésimo
Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): mil biliões avos
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Etymology
Borrowed from French quatrillion.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: qua‧tri‧lhão
Noun
quatrilhão m (plural quatrilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) quadrillion (1015)
- Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) mil biliões
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of quatrilião (“1018”)
Usage notes
- Portuguese-speaking countries follow the traditional long scale, with the exception of Brazil which adopted the short scale used in the UK and US. The number 1015 is expressed as mil biliões in African and European Portuguese, but as um quadrilhão/quatrilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
- The Angolan Government proscribes the use of long scale.[2]
- In Portugal, the alternative um quadrilhão/quatrilhão (“one septillion, 1024”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um quadrilião/quatrilião.[3]
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