Mathematician:Nicolas Chuquet

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Mathematician

French mathematician who first treated powers of unknowns systematically.

Inventor of the words billion for $10^{12}$, trillion for $10^{18}$, and so on.


Nationality

French


History

  • Born: 1445 or c. 1455, Paris, France
  • Died: 1488 or c. 1500, Lyon, France


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