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How Much is a Billion?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

If you stacked $1 bills on top of each other you would have to stack them 63 miles high to have a billion of them.

Euro-officials now want to create a €500bn nest egg to protect the Euro from scenarios like what's happening in Greece at the moment.

A stack of bills 31,500 miles high, no less.

Mind boggling, innit?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm"

you are right..... in the US and the UK, and Billion is 2 different things...

in the US, a Billion is a thousand million. so a one followed by nine zeros... 1,000,000,000

in the UK, a Billion is a million million. so a one followed by twelve zeros... 1,000,000,000,000

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

just had a look in wikipedia.... in 1974 the UK changed from the long scale to the short scale.... so a billion use to the be the one with 12 zero's but is now the one with 9 zero's.....

so whenever you look any offical figures the top one is the one you look at...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector."

We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.

Also some places up here doesn't have broadband

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By *ickedWWoman
over a year ago

Chester

I reckon a Billion is a 'canny bit'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i got pound notes... still legal tender up here!!

and a billion is probably on par with my debt levels...!! x

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm

you are right..... in the US and the UK, and Billion is 2 different things...

in the US, a Billion is a thousand million. so a one followed by nine zeros... 1,000,000,000

in the UK, a Billion is a million million. so a one followed by twelve zeros... 1,000,000,000,000"

In the UK a Billion is a Thousand Million, no difference to the US.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Around here a billion is something someone with a lisp has on the side of their motorbike...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Around here a billion is something someone with a lisp has on the side of their motorbike... "

would that not be a thide car??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.

We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.

Also some places up here doesn't have broadband "

do we?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.

We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.

Also some places up here doesn't have broadband

do we?! "

yup

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.

We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.

Oh hell, I thought they'd been scrapped, didn;t have many but hell where are they

Also some places up here doesn't have broadband "

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