Poll: One Billion
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The British way makes more sense to me logically, however, in terms of speech, the American way is easier on the tongue.
Either way, it's a number too big to have much use in day to day life.
Either way, it's a number too big to have much use in day to day life.
I've learned it to be 1000 x 1 million to be 1 billion. Never even heard otherwise... huh.
You would think I would hear about something like this in school, but I never did/do/probably will.
Way to keep me isolated, eh America?
You would think I would hear about something like this in school, but I never did/do/probably will.
Way to keep me isolated, eh America?
1 with a hundred zeroes is called Googol, 10[sup]100[/sup]. It's fairly big and has a silly name.JinxyKatte said:
10 to the power of Googol is called Googolplex, 10[sup]googol[/sup]. It's quite big, but nothing particularly exceptional. Mostly famous because it has a lot of zeroes and a funny name.
There are many other big and fancy numbers, but I don't think they deal with so many zeroes in one place. Which a Billion has 9 of.
It is messed up, my friend and I had an interesting conversation... until we realised we were working with 2 different numbersChocoFace said:
And isn't 12 zeros a trillion?
This is true.........and It's ANNOYING.maninahat said:
No scratch that, it's fucking Goddamned Annoying. As in, to the point that I refuse to do any math in my native language (should math even HAVE a language?)
Also, it's not just in China and India, it's in a few other South Asian countries like mine and Thailand.etc.
OT: I always use Billion as 1000 million. Didn't know there were different versions. What do Britons call 1,000,000,000 then?
so there isn't even remotely close to 6 billion people in the world by the UK model...
That's retarded.
How do they even function being that garbage and just giving things arbitrary definitions... the rest of the english speaking world makes sense.
Glad they've been okay since 1975
That's retarded.
How do they even function being that garbage and just giving things arbitrary definitions... the rest of the english speaking world makes sense.
Glad they've been okay since 1975
No, you mean 10[sup]10[sup]100[/sup][/sup]. 10[sup]100[/sup] can be written down easily:JinxyKatte said:
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
The number you were thinking of was a 1 followed by that many zeroes, which is called a googolplex.
That's not a particularly large number, either, though. 9[sup]9[sup]9[sup]9[/sup][/sup][/sup] is bigger than that.
The biggest named finite number is Graham's number, which is so large it can't actually be written down in the form of a tower of powers.
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/g/graham.htm
Anyhoo, enough of that. In the old British system, one billion was indeed 10[sup]12[/sup], and 10[sup]9[/sup] was called a milliard. Now, however, British people use 10[sup]9[/sup] as a billion (at least, everyone I know does).
It is "a million" millions, so...
1,000,000 = million...
100,000,000,000,000 = billion?
EDIT:
1,000,000 = one million
10,000,000 = ten million
100,000,000,000 = one hundred million
1,000,000,000,000 = one thousand million (I think that is the "American" Billion)
10,000,000,000,000 = ten thousand million
100,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion
1,000,000 = million...
100,000,000,000,000 = billion?
EDIT:
1,000,000 = one million
10,000,000 = ten million
100,000,000,000 = one hundred million
1,000,000,000,000 = one thousand million (I think that is the "American" Billion)
10,000,000,000,000 = ten thousand million
100,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion
Taught that:
1,000,000,000 = 1 billion
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 quadrillion? <-- not sure about the last one.
EDIT: Ninja'd. Found out after the fact. Here is the shadow warrior's post:
1,000,000,000 = 1 billion
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 quadrillion? <-- not sure about the last one.
EDIT: Ninja'd. Found out after the fact. Here is the shadow warrior's post:
Hawgh said:
You mean a billion billion? Not if you are english. The Trillion has 18 zeros.brandon237 said:It is messed up, my friend and I had an interesting conversation... until we realised we were working with 2 different numbersChocoFace said:
And isn't 12 zeros a trillion?
