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Documentation Standards for Large-Scale Data

In your role as a data analyst for a global telecommunications company, you are drafting a style guide for reporting annual data traffic, which often reaches scales like 22,450,000,000,000 bytes. To help new hires provide consistent verbal reports, write a brief explanation of the standard system used to name a trillion-scale number in words. In your response, list the five numerical periods in the correct order they are read (from left to right) and describe the general rule for how each comma-separated group of digits is named in conjunction with its period.

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