first question- what is abillion? is it a million times a million or a thousand times a million?
second question -assume at the age of 20, i start counting one billion shillings coins at the rate of one shilling per second for 8 hours each day, at what age will i finish counting?
2007-03-27 23:45:51 · 3 answers · asked by Omar 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
a thousand millions
a billion seconds ago - was 1967
a billion minutes ago - Christ was alive
a billion hours ago - dinosaurs were alive
a billion dollars spent in Washington DC - was 20 minutes ago
oh no Mr Bill! more math
calculator time - 1,000,000,000 / 8 / 60 /60 / 365.25 = number of years + 20
about 115 and 3 weeks?
2007-03-27 23:50:34 · answer #1 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well 1 billion 9 zeros. and a million is 6 zeros, the 3 zero differnce is guess what, 1,000 ta dah. ok so take 60 sec per min x 60 min/hr x 8 hr/day. 60 x 60 x 8 = 28800 take the 1,000,000,000 /(28800 x by 365) gives you how many years it will take. about 95 years plus your 20 original, man thats like 115
2007-03-27 23:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by niceguyswthrt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let me give you a little perspective on one billion.
1 million seconds is 13 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years.
1 million hours ago was in 1885. 1 billion hours ago man did not exist.
1 million dollars was 5 seconds ago at the U.S. treasury. 1 billion $ ago was yesterday afternoon.
that's according to 1 billion being one thousand million. here in Canada it equals one million million. to give you a perspective on that, remember one billion seconds ago was 31 years. 1 billion seconds in Canada is 31,688 years.
better start counting.
2007-03-28 22:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by jeffrey m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋