Last I checked there weren't 10^12 people living on earth just yet.
I honestly didn't know that.
One gets used to short scale on the Internet.
it's about 1MMM
For anyone wondering what that is, English uses short-scale, i.e. 1 billion = 1000 million, some other languages / countries use long-scale i.e. 1 billion = 1 million million.
Why would it be in long scale? Is long scale even used in english at all?
It was a joke. But it made me realize, thanks to the comment above, that Earth's population is around 8 thousand millions, and not 8 billion as I'd come to believe.
Small scale. Where I grew up a billion had 12 zeroes, nowadays it has 9. It's a thousand millions, not a million millions.