2007-05-24 02:16:15 · 25 answers · asked by Kirsty 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
the 'lol' is because i thought i sounded a bit dumb :o) maybe i am........
2007-05-24 02:25:24 · update #1
Hold on just let me check my wallet....
2007-05-24 02:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a confusion between British and American usages of the word "billion". A British billion was a million million, and an American billion was a thousand million. Once sums of a thousand million became common in finance, the world pretty much settled on the American definition. A billion is a thousand million, and a "trillion" is a million million.
2007-05-24 02:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thousand million. Used to be million million, changed to the american system (which does make more sense
Some perspective:
1 billion seconds is about 31 years
About 1 billion minutes ago, Jesus was born and the Roman Empire was flourishing
1 billion days ago, your ancestors had just started walking on two legs.
1 billion cm is 10, 000 km, the distance from Chicago to Tokyo.
1 billion m would take you the moon three times.
1 billion km would take you to the sun and back three times.
Theres about 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and the universe is reckoned to contain 100 billion galaxies.
2007-05-24 09:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A billion is a thousand million. (There are 3 zeroes more, which means you multiplied a million by a thousand to get a billion)
2007-05-24 02:21:41 · answer #4 · answered by Val 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These days, it is generally accepted worldwide as 1,000 million.
There are varying scales of numbers that would make it proper for it to be a million million, but this system is not really used anymore. It was used in Great Britain longer than it was used in the US, so is often referred to as a British system
(check out the attached link for a more in depth explanation of long and short numbering systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales)
2007-05-24 02:30:03 · answer #5 · answered by searchpup 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A billion is one thousand millions. 1,000,000,000 (9 zeros). A million 1,000,000(6 zeros)
2007-05-24 02:29:02 · answer #6 · answered by cidyah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A billion is a thousand million, a million million is a quadrillion.
2007-05-24 02:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's 1000 million.
2007-05-24 02:18:36 · answer #8 · answered by medicine wheel 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Used to be a million million until we decided to conform with US accounting procedures, now it's just 1000 million.
2007-05-24 03:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking we have been forced to adopt the American definition of 1,000 millions. Traditionally in the U.K. a billion is 1,000,000 millions.
2007-05-24 02:32:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A billion is one thousand million.
2007-05-24 02:18:45 · answer #11 · answered by Mikey C 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋