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This is too true to be funny...........
The next time you hear a politician use the
Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spending
YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting that figure into some perspective in
One of its releases.
A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.
D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
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DangerUXD is right. A BIllion, by definition, is the second power of a million i.e. a million million. A thousand million is a milliard.
You my argue that words often change their meanings and you'd be quite right - but not when the meaning is built into the word. Will we ever call a human being a quadruped, a horse a biped or a four-sided figure a hexagon?
You my argue that words often change their meanings and you'd be quite right - but not when the meaning is built into the word. Will we ever call a human being a quadruped, a horse a biped or a four-sided figure a hexagon?
If you check with Wikipedia you find there are 2 systems (scales) in operation and as I recall some chancellor decided we would swop from the sensible one we use to the one the US used.
Personally I don't see the need for a system that introduces a new value term before it is really needed. For example, since five thousand million is perfectly understandable (it doesn't duplicate the highest value so far) then it is senseless to refer to it as five billion. The new term is simply not required at that point. So here we see the incompetence of authority. If you have the best system and someone does something inferior, use the fact that they do it to mess up your own. How do these people float to the top every time ?
Personally I don't see the need for a system that introduces a new value term before it is really needed. For example, since five thousand million is perfectly understandable (it doesn't duplicate the highest value so far) then it is senseless to refer to it as five billion. The new term is simply not required at that point. So here we see the incompetence of authority. If you have the best system and someone does something inferior, use the fact that they do it to mess up your own. How do these people float to the top every time ?