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Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
| ← 1,000,000 (106)
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[a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109)
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1012
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1015 → [a], [b], [c]
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1018 → [a], [b]
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Cardinal (Brazil): um trilhão
Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião
Ordinal (Brazil): trilionésimo
Ordinal (Portugal): bilionésimo
Fractional (Brazil): trilionésimo, um trilhão avos
Fractional (Portugal): bilionésimo
Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião avos
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Etymology
Borrowed from French trillion.
Pronunciation
Noun
trilhão m (plural trilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) bilião
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of trilião (“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 1012 is expressed as um bilião in African and European Portuguese, but as um trilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.
- The Angolan Government proscribes the use of long scale.
- In Portugal, the alternative um trilhão (“one quadrillion, 1018”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um trilião.
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