In Puerto Rico, un billón is 10 9 (equivalent to the US billion). Thus, we have millón (10 6, million), mil millones (10 9, billion), billón (10 12, trillion), mil billones (10 15, quadrillion), trillón (10 18, quintillion), mil trillones (10 21, sextillion)… The only (local) exception to this rule is the Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico where the short scale is in use. The Spanish language uses the long scale system in which we alternate between a scale word and its thousand.Thousands are formed by stating the multiplier digit before it, except for one thousand itself: mil, dos mil, tres mil, cuatro mil, cinco mil … Tens and units are linked with y (and), as in treinta y cinco.The same applies for the hundreds where one word is created by removing the space between the multiplier and the hundred word: cien (plural cientos), doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, quinientos, seiscientos, setecientos, ochocientos, and novecientos.The tens have specific names based on their multiplier digit root except for ten and twenty: diez, veinte, treinta, cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta, setenta, ochenta, and noventa.The same applies up to twenty-nine: diecisiete, dieciocho … veintinueve. Diez y seis is phonetically shortened with an apocope as dieciséis. named after the ten (or the twenty) and the digit. Sixteen to twenty-nine are regular numbers, i.e. Digits and numbers from zero to fifteen are specific words, namely cero, uno (which is apocoped in un before a vowel, and has a feminine form: una), dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince.Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible).
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