Bloke Ala Sarcasm
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It depends who you're talking to.
The British system works on a basis of a million million, or 12 zeros.
I.e. 1,000,000,000,000.
In the British system, the American billion is A Thousand million, or nine zeros.
I.e 1,000,000,000.
In the American system, the British billion is known as a Trillion.
Most British institutions and population took up the American system on the basis of miscommunication across the ocean.
We still tend to use both systems in a kind of, using the American way for their sake, but knowing better anyway.
much the same way Britain uses the Metric system as well as the Imperial.
The Metric system itself uses blocks of three zeros.
Kilo (1,000) Mega (1,000,000) Giga (1,000,000,000) Tera (1,000,000,000,000)
or
Milli (0.001) Micro (0.000001) Nano (0.000000001) Pico (0.000000000001)
You know what they say, over specialise and breed in weakness. |
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jakekay
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1000 if you are in the US, 1,000,000 if you are in the UK. Uk & US billions are different. Although in recent years the UK has started adopting the US way of expressing a billion (as it sounds better on BBC news and is more sensational) |
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Porkamon
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In England it was originally one million million, but we have now adopted the American method of counting, and it is now 1000 million. |
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The Rid
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1000 |
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TallPaul
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It used to be 1 million millions was a billion. But we seem to have adopted the American billion which is 1000 million. |
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KooKoo Molookoo
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I think its a thousand million, it would make sense if it was a million million |
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SteveT
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It used to be a million million here in the UK and a thousand million in the US.
But we are more and more using the US definition here |
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hans_grubenhaus
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1000. A petaflop (recently coined by IBM) is even more mind boggling. A thousand trillion. |
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Medium Dave
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depends -
USA - a thousand million
UK - a million million |
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Golden
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1000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 (one billion). |
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KENNETH D
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in uk million in us 1000 |
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shaman6513
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isnt it like a million million?? im not rlly sure |
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boshnpecs
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It used to be a million (in the UK). But now we've all followed the US, and it's a thousand. |
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Laura Louissee ♥ Waterskiing
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its times a thousand |
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Jude
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I always thought a billion was 1million x 1million. |
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xUnsure.Cx Pon<3
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a billion is 1000 000 000 |
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Cuneyt Y
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100 million make's 1billion! |
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laurieanino@sbcglobal.net
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1 million x 100 = 1 billion |
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Everests.Tan
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a Billion times one million is 1 billion.
If I am not wrong, a billion is an infinite amount. |
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