The Guardian nowadays,picking up on a paper in Nature, reports that scientists have calculated that there are more than “3tn” trees on soil. The “3tn” means three trillion. What does “trillion” mean in British English? Did they give up on that “billion”-means-“trillion”/“trillion”-means-“quintillion” nonsense yet? Whew, or yes. There are more than 3000000000000 trees.
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Source: gawker.com