Nicolas Chuquet

In 1484, Chuquet wrote an article Triparty en la science des nombres,[2][3] which was unpublished in his lifetime.

Most of it, however, was copied without attribution by Estienne de La Roche in his 1520 textbook, l'Arismetique.

His article shows a huge number divided into groups of six digits, and in a short passage he states that the groups can be called: In a second passage, he wrote: In the extract from Chuquet's manuscript, the transcription and translation provided here all contain an original mistake: one too many zeros in the 804300 portion of the fully written out example: 745324'8043000 '700023'654321 ... Chuquet was, however, the original author of the earliest work using of a systematic, extended series of names ending in -illion or -yllion.

In 1514, Budaeus introduced the term Milliard or Milliart for 1012, which was widely publicised around 1550 by the influential Jacques Peletier du Mans.

Milliard was reduced to 109 around the end of the 17th century, leaving the modern Long scale system.