one two-billionth?

Question

Can someone write that out in numbers?

Answer 1

Man, what is the matter with these people? one two-billionth is 1 divided by 2 billion, or 1/2,000,000,000, or 0.0000000005. To see this decimal expression a little better, 1/2000 is 0.0005, so you just add 6 more zeroess for a total of 9 zeroes for 1/2,000,000,000.

Answer 2

Well, your numbers would make sense if 1/2 of the total people who had gotten swine flu so far had died from it. Instead, out of over 2300 confirmed cases, there have been 46 confirmed deaths worldwide. I know that both numbers are likely higher, but these are lab test confirmed cases and deaths, not suspected or probable cases and deaths. If you take suspected and probable into account, the percentage of deaths actually goes down. Anyways, this means that less than 2% of people worldwide who have contrated the disease have died. So, if 2 billion people get it, 1 billion wouldn't die. It would be more like 40 million. Don't get me wrong, this is still a lot of death, but you also have to account that in developed countries there have only been 2 deaths so far. The other 44 confirmed deaths have been in Mexico. Plus, if you take into account all of the suspected cases, the number goes down to less than 1%. I think that swine flu does have the possibility to spread. There are medical labs all around the world working at developing an effective vaccine that will be administered to those who need it. If a vaccine is successfully developed and administered, swine flu will just become like seasonal flu, which I never see any alarmists reacting about.

Answer 3

1+2/1,000,000 = 1.000002

Answer 4

0.0000000012... I think...

Answer 5

500,000,000