A trillion! Surely you meant a bazillion (“Raising the rubble,” Dec. 5). A trillion pounds of earth on a 144-acre parcel would indeed be Maine’s largest something, soaring to over 1,000 feet in the air. “In layman’s terms, that’s about 5.7 trillion pounds. Yup. Trillion.”

Even after the implied question, you got it wrong. Apparently trillion isn’t such a layman’s term after all.

For the curious, a trillion is a thousand billions or a million millions. I’m sure you meant billion. Slippery little things, those decimal points.

To my knowledge, about the only thing on Earth we measure in trillions is the national debt.

David Chittim, Lewiston

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