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This article is from the Bulgaria FAQ, by Dragomir R. Radev radev@tune.cs.columbia.edu with numerous contributions by others.

11-10 How to translate "million", and "billion" in Bulgarian?

(by Dragomir R. Radev), last updated: 17-Mar-1997 (This entry is in Bulgarian)
Na bqlgarski dumata "bilion" oznachava "miliard". Sqshto taka, na bqlgarski
dumata za "hilyada miliarda" e "trilion", po sqshtiya nachin kakto e i v
amerikanskiya angliyski. (Na britanski angliyski ponyakoga se izpolzuva
"miliard" za "hilyada miliona", dokato "bilion" oznachava "hilyada
miliarda" ili "edin milion miliona", a pqk "trilion" oznachava "edin milion
biliona".)

V matematicheski format, eto kak izglejda gornoto:

                                  bqlgarski amerikanski             britanski
10^6                   1,000,000     milion     million               million
10^9               1,000,000,000    miliard     billion  one thousand million
10^12          1,000,000,000,000    trilion    trillion               billion
10^15      1,000,000,000,000,000 kvadrilion quadrillion  one thousand billion
10^18  1,000,000,000,000,000,000 kvintilion quintillion              trillion

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