What Is One Billion?

[DJEvelEd]

What Is One Billion?


Here's the progression my Dominican friend told me:

ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten millions, hundred millions, thousand millions, ten thousand millions, hundred thousand millions, billion.

No? Why? Explain this to me Oracle.

[ChickenHawk]

The FUCK are you talking about?

1,000,000,000

That's a billion. If you say it any other way, you're either Dominican or retarded.

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[Tall_James]

you're either Dominican or retarded

Leave the Dominicans alone. Everyone knows its the Costa Ricans who are Latin America's mouth breathers.


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[JustJon]

What Is One Billion?
It's a number.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

According to the latest book I am working on (Auditor's Dictionary: Terms, Concepts, and Processes), a billion is one thousand million.

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[IrishAlkey]

Whick makes perfect sense because one billion has three more zeros than one million.

10 x 100 = 1000

100 x 100000 = 10000000

100000000000000000 x 10000000000000000000000000= 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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This message was edited by IrishAlkey on 3-18-04 @ 4:21 PM

[A.J.]

What Is One Billion?

The population of India.

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Next question, Alex.

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[East Side Dave]

The population of India.


The politically correct term is the "population of Native America"!!!

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[DarkHippie]

The politically correct term is the "population of Native America"!!!
My head just imploded

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[smiler grogan]

The number of threads keithy has started about the pot smoking girl.

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[smiler grogan]

I'm thinking of starting a bunch of threads based on how many threads keithy has started about the pot smoking girl.

[Arienette]

i see that only four people have actually voted in the poll. that's sad. on the bright side, all four of us were right. it's 1 thousand million

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[grlNIN]

i see that only four people have actually voted in the poll. that's sad. on the bright side, all four of us were right. it's 1 thousand million




Thanks for the answer!

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[walking joint]

i see that only four people have actually voted in the poll. that's sad.


i didn't realize people actually voted in the polls. i just figured you put your answer below in a post. and one billion is one billion.

[sr71blackbird]

it's 1 thousand million


And that is exactly 1 thousand million more then the amount of dollars in my pocket right now.

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[Mike Teacher]

Well, sometimes a billion isn't a billion.

The brits would call 1 million million a billion, where we call 1 thousand million a billion. The brits seem to be wising up though, so this may be about-to-be-becoming an anachronism.

Easiest to use, for me:

1x10^6 = million; net speak for the scientific notation of 1 x 10 to the sixth; ie. a 1 followed by six zeroes]

We tend to de-mark increases of Three orders of magnitude, hence:

1x10^9 = billion
1x10^12 = trillion

1x10^100 was a number that intrigued Ed Kasner; a 1 followed by 100 zeroes:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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So he asked his nephew for a name. The nine year old's suggestion: 'Googol'

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The confusion on large numbers is justified. Here's some sense of scale from my Teaching Toolbox:

What exactly is a million vs. a billion?

Well; we can't deal with these, we don't know what they are, but we know seconds. 60 seconds = 1 minute, etc.

SO!

How long is a million seconds?

about 11 days.

How long is a billion seconds?

well over 30 years.

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For some, this seems implausible, such is our naivete. Now, for the sports fans:

Q: What is closer to Infinity; a million or a billion?

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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 3-18-04 @ 9:25 PM

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

The brits would call 1 million million a billion, where we call 1 thousand million a billion. The brits seem to be wising up though, so this may be about-to-be-becoming an anachronism.



Yes, but it's an antiquated notion, per my author, who is British.

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This message was edited by Alice S. Fuzzybutt on 3-18-04 @ 9:27 PM

[TheMojoPin]

This thread was a nerd trap.

All correct answers have been tracked and you shall receive beatings for your lunch money, followed by wedgies, and finally ending with a swirlie in a dirty toilet.

Have a nice day.

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[Arienette]

All correct answers have been tracked and you shall receive beatings for your lunch money, followed by wedgies, and finally ending with a swirlie in a dirty toilet.someone knows a little too much about this... hmmm..

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[JustJon]

I guess it's educational when you receive so many.

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[TheMojoPin]

My only significant accomplishment in all my years of schooling was giving a kid a wedgie in the 7th grade for "daring" to be reading a newspaper and wearing sweatpants. I'm not sure why, but I remember those being the two key factors for setting me off. So I proceeded with the wedgie, but the kid decided to act like it didn't matter, which just made me "wedge" even harder, to the point where he was almost off the ground, still holding the fucking paper and attempting to read it. Finally, the elastic in both his underwear and the sweatpants just completely snapped and gave out, and the deed was done.

Man, I've got the giddy sweats just typing that.

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[mikeyboy]

I'll bet he just stole that from an episode of "Freaks and Geeks" so he could try to impress us.

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No way.

It was in art class, right in front of the table with the giant paper cutter on it.

AND IT WAS GLORIOUS.

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[Snoogans]

The number of threads keithy has started about the pot smoking girl.

i purposely took a knee when i laughed at this cause chicken hawk doesnt think it makes sense

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[A.J.]

It was in art class, right in front of the table with the giant paper cutter on it.

And that big tub of paste?

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