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trillionaire. It seems impossible that anyone will ever become a British trillionaire (a trillion is a million billions in Great Brit- ain; that is 1 followed by 18 zeroes), but some oil-rich Arab might become an American trillionaire (a trillion is “only” a thousand billions in the U.S.). Needless to say, there are pres- ently no trillionaires (from the French trillion) in the world, but there are a few dozen billionaires, thousands of millionaires, and, as John Jacob Astor 4th said: “A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.” See also billionaire; millionaire; multimillionaire. |