1 billion ???
Question: In the US. 1 Billion = 1 Thousand million.
Am I right in thinking that contained by the UK 1 Billion = 1 Million Million?
Answers:
Yes
There is no longer any difference between the British and the American billion.
1 billion = 1,000,000,000
Bloody Yanks have other got to be at variance haven't they !
Its no longer realistic to read out 1 billion & mean 1 million million.
Unfortunately.
Just approaching "gay" doesnt mean bright & cheerful anymore.
The US definition of a billion is collectively used over here now as all right.
The Billion defined as 1 million million WAS USED in the UK but the US Billion (1,000,000,000) have been contained by general usage for frequent years by our Banks, Government & Journalists.
WIKIPEDIA
There was also a historical difference between billions, trillions, and so forth. Americans use "billion" to penny-pinching one thousand million (1,000,000,000), whereas in the UK, until the latter member of the 20th century, it was used to aim one million million ... All major British publications and broadcasters, including the BBC, which long used "thousand million" to avoid ambiguity, immediately use "billion" to mean thousand million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/american_an...
For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United Kingdom uniformly used the long enormity, while the United States of America used the short scale... However, today the United Kingdom uses the short size so widely that the term "British usage" is no longer an appropriate phrase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/long_and_sh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/long_and_sh...
so later how did you write out your 1 billion?
that depends on the the transfer rate of pounds to dollars. anyway, within the US a billion = 1000 million , just attach 3 0's I think. 1,000,000,000= 1,000x 1,000,000. BTW x that billion by 1,000 and I have an idea that you'll get a trillion= 1,000,000,000 that's one thosusand millions. a million millions would equal =1,000,000,000,000 which would be a quadrillion! I regard as!
yes, US billion (TRILLION) 1 thousaud million 1 000 000 000. In the Uk its written 1 000 000 000 000, ie 1 million million
Yes but the American uses of the terms are becoming standardised.
Most British relations nowadays axiom a billion mean 1000,000,000 in recent times like their American counterparts.
Exactly explicitly how it is.
No, we haven't used that convention for several decades! Harold Wilson's government contained by the 1970's adopted the "American" convention, and that convention like lightning spread and is now used surrounded by all field. In 20 years I haven't seen anyone use the "old" billion. The American trillion is also presently standard use.
It only seem to be nostalgic traditionalists and foreigners (no misdeed intended) who think that the UK still uses the hoary system. We have moved on, really, we enjoy!
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