Mega and teradollars just doesn't sound right though. Very educational thread, I didn't even know about the long scale until this post came up. Apparently there's all sorts of extra terms in the long scale. Millard, billard, byllion, tryllion, quadrillion, quyllion, sixlion, septyllion, ottyllion, and nonyllion, Mostly made by the French to fill in all those gaps left in the short scale, and I used to think Scientific notation was annoying =P now it seems like a walk in the park =>