What is an Elon?
An Elon — written E — is the base unit of Muskonometry. It equals one trillion, or 1012.
Why a trillion?
Trillions are the natural scale of modern economic, scientific and demographic figures. National debts are in the tens of trillions; the largest companies have market caps measured in trillions; cosmological distances and energies easily reach quadrillions and beyond. Anchoring the unit at the trillion makes every other notation form (Ξ = 10 trillion, ⊕ = 100 trillion, Ω = 1,000 trillion) immediately legible.
Examples
- 1E = 1 trillion = the rough market cap of mid-sized index ETFs.
- 3.4E = 3.4 trillion = Apple's approximate market cap.
- 34E = 34 trillion = U.S. federal debt.
- 105E = world GDP.
- 9461E = one light-year (in meters), and so on into astronomical scale.
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