bilhão

Portuguese

**Portuguese numbers ^(edit)**
← 1,000,000 (10⁶)	← 100,000,000 (10⁸)	1,000,000,000 (10⁹)	10¹² → ^{[a], [b]}	10¹⁵ → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
Cardinal (Brazil): um bilhão Cardinal (Portugal): mil milhões Ordinal (Brazil): bilionésimo Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (Brazil): bilionésimo, um bilhão avos Fractional (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo, mil milhões avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (10⁹)

Borrowed from French billion.

bilhão m (plural bilhões)

(Brazil, cardinal number) billion (10⁹)
Synonym: (Portugal) mil milhões
(Portugal, informal, cardinal number) trillion (10¹²)
Synonyms: (Portugal, preferred in most circumstances) bilião, (Brazil) trilhão

Brazil (along with the US and UK) uses the short scale large-number naming system, while Portugal uses the long scale. The number 10⁹ (one billion) is expressed in Brazilian Portuguese as um bilhão but in European and African Portuguese as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”).[1]
In Portugal, um bilhão means "one trillion" (10¹²) but is considered an informal spelling; bilião is preferred in most circumstances.[2]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.

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