Billon vs. Billion: What's the Difference?

An alloy of gold or silver with a greater proportion of another metal, such as copper, used in making coins.

The cardinal number equal to 109.

An alloy of silver with a high percentage of copper, used in making medals and tokens.

Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 1012.

Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

An indefinitely large number.

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

A thousand million ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparison logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2]): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard

A million million ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparison logic: 1,000,000^2]): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 10¹²

An unspecified very large number.

According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen

The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros

Denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States

Denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain