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how much is a billion.

ilovesleep · 2012-01-27 18:02:03

I'm trying to figure this out but can't. A thousand thousand is a million.. So a billion must be a thousand million. SW fraud is estimated at 300 million. Another 700 million is a billion. Would I be correct? This country is in deficit of what? 18 billion? It's been that since winter 2010 which means austerity isn't…

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I'm trying to figure this out but can't.

A thousand thousand is a million..

So a billion must be a thousand million.

SW fraud is estimated at 300 million. Another 700 million is a billion. Would I be correct?

This country is in deficit of what? 18 billion? It's been that since winter 2010 which means austerity isn't working.

Politicians pensions are coming up to 7 million.

Where is 1/2/3/4 billion going to come from in budgets, never mind 18billion.

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#2 27-01-2012 6:02pm

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one thousand million... in a financial context.

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#3 27-01-2012 6:04pm

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1x10^9

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#4 27-01-2012 6:04pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

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#5 27-01-2012 6:05pm

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This thread reminds me of the time I counted to infinity, twice.

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#6 27-01-2012 6:05pm

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Ask these guys in several millenia.

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#7 27-01-2012 6:06pm

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Its feck loads

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#8 27-01-2012 6:18pm

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About 1 Gig

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#9 27-01-2012 6:18pm

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ilovesleep wrote: »

SW fraud is estimated at 300 million. Another 700 million is a billion. Would I be correct?

A lot of that is from staff errors.

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#10 27-01-2012 6:28pm

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There's a difference between the UK and US billion

US billionaire - $1000 million dollars (1 x 10^9)

UK billionaire - stg1000,000 million pounds (1 x 10^12)

Though the US version is the most common one in use these days......I hope....else we're proper fcuked!!!

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#11 27-01-2012 6:29pm

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Nolanger wrote: »

A lot of that is from staff errors.

Bloody Public Service!:mad:

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#12 27-01-2012 6:41pm

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Plug wrote: »

This thread reminds me of the time I counted to infinity, twice.

Hey Chuck Norris. Glad to see you.

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#13 27-01-2012 6:42pm

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The actual price of that doggy in the window, the one with the waggly tail.

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#14 27-01-2012 6:46pm

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Well now that that's out of the way: Long scale 4 lief.

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#15 27-01-2012 6:47pm

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Archeron wrote: »

The actual price of that doggy in the window, the one with the waggly tail.

You're a bastard for trying to infect my mind with that awful tune. I have to lie down now and listen to Machine Head to cleanse the brain.

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#16 27-01-2012 6:48pm

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ilovesleep wrote: »

I'm trying to figure this out but can't.

A thousand thousand is a million..

So a billion must be a thousand million.

SW fraud is estimated at 300 million. Another 700 million is a billion. Would I be correct?

This country is in deficit of what? 18 billion? It's been that since winter 2010 which means austerity isn't working.

Politicians pensions are coming up to 7 million.

Where is 1/2/3/4 billion going to come from in budgets, never mind 18billion.

Yep, austerity beyond cutting the fat from the administrative side of the public service wont work. The deficit cannot be closed without massive growth, growth we wont get unless there is stimulus in the economy.

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#17 27-01-2012 6:48pm

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I dont even know how many zero's are in a billion. Actually come to think of it, Id be hard pressed to remember how many zero's are in a million.

Maths was never my strong point.

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#18 27-01-2012 6:49pm

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Is this the Minister of Finance's Boards account by any chance?

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#19 27-01-2012 6:58pm

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This much.
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#20 27-01-2012 6:58pm

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1 million seconds = 11.5 days

1 billion seconds = 31.71 years

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#21 27-01-2012 7:38pm

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Jimoslimos wrote: »

There's a difference between the UK and US billion

US billionaire - $1000 million dollars (1 x 10^9)

UK billionaire - stg1000,000 million pounds (1 x 10^12)

Though the US version is the most common one in use these days......I hope....else we're proper fcuked!!!

A billionaire is someone who is worth a thousand million units of the currency units related to the country from which he resides/comes from.

A billion is not a different value in the US compared with the UK or Ireland.

The only difference is the currency exchange rate.

1 Billion Dollars = 1 Billion Euro = 1 Billion Pound numerically.

Any differences are only to do with currency exchange rates.

i.e. 1 billion = 1000 million

= 1000,000,000

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#22 28-01-2012 2:29am

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kraggy wrote: »

A billionaire is someone who is worth a thousand million units of the currency units related to the country from which he resides/comes from.

A billion is not a different value in the US compared with the UK or Ireland.

The only difference is the currency exchange rate.

1 Billion Dollars = 1 Billion Euro = 1 Billion Pound numerically.

Any differences are only to do with currency exchange rates.

i.e. 1 billion = 1000 million

= 1000,000,000

Yeah, I did say the US version was the most common in use and I think is the accepted standard (for currency) even in the UK nowadays. Same way as a US trillion means 1 million million (or 1 x 10^12), in the old UK notation it would be 1 million million million (1 x 10^18)

However the term in British English, when not referring to money billion should mean 1 x 10^12. Guess that's why scientists introduced SI prefixes for large numbers.

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