One
One Thousand
One Million
One Million and One
One Million and Two
One Billion
One Billion and Two
"Daddy, What's a trillion?"

Why do we group our digits in threes?  Is it because there are three spatial dimensions?  A 3-D cube of one thousand units (or thousands, or millions, or billions, ...) becomes the "unit" for the next named number.

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