A billion explained

sbsquarepants

Got this email the other day and thought i would share it with you fine people, to help put things in context the next time Mr. Lennihan is telling you that you owe him €74 billion and that if you dont have it, he's sending Harney round:eek:

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.

1 Billion seconds ago it was 1959

1 Billion minutes ago Jesus was alive (allegedly!)

1 Billion hours ago it was the stone age

1 Billion days ago no one walked the earth on two feet

Lennihan....... you f'ucker:mad:

OutlawPete

Yeah, but One Billion Rice is only seven packs of Uncle Bens.

That_Guy

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Got this email the other day and thought i would share it with you fine people, to help put things in context the next time Mr. Lennihan is telling you that you owe him €74 billion and that if you dont have it, he's sending Harney round:eek:



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.

1 Billion seconds ago it was 1959
1 Billion minutes ago Jesus was alive (allegedly!)
1 Billion hours ago it was the stone age
1 Billion days ago no one walked the earth on two feet

Lennihan....... you f'ucker:mad:

Had to edit your post because I've got a black style and black on black doesn't really work.

My name is URL

Why is he a fcuker? For making tough decidions that others would be too scared to do?

itsallaboutheL

My name is URL wrote: »

Why is he a fcuker? For making tough decidions that others would be too scared to do?

I only skimmed through the OP but, Apparently he killed jesus

A billion.. How many lives lost after five ****.

RichieO

OutlawPete wrote: »

Yeah, but One Billion Rice is only seven packs of Uncle Bens.

Did you count them? if so try again, there's less than a quarter of a million in 7 packs...

1 billion = approx 330,000 1lb packs of rice... It's a lot of rice, innit...

That_Guy

Deleted User wrote: »

A billion.. How many lives lost after five ****.

If only this happened on Jeopardy.

OutlawPete

RichieO wrote: »

Did you count them? if so try again, there's less than a quarter of a million in 7 packs...

1 billion = approx 330,000 1lb packs of rice... It's a lot of rice, innit...

Hang on and I'll count them again :cool:

sbsquarepants

It's a fair bit of rice, but it's a s'hit load of tax money!

Sheeps

1Billion = number of tonnes of shit this thread is worth.

melekalikimaka

its also the amount of braincells you lose talking crap

pickarooney

This has been done a billion times before

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055883506

genericguy

melekalikimaka wrote: »

its also the amount of braincells you lose talking crap

[citation needed]

The_Minister

Everyone realises the government figures are American billions not British billions?

As in a billion is a thousand million, not a million million.

sbsquarepants

Sheeps wrote: »

1Billion = number of tonnes of shit this thread is worth.

Maybe you shouldn't have read it, much less posted on it.
Just a sugestion for next time, seeing as your time is apparently so precious:rolleyes:

Liam Byrne

My name is URL wrote: »

Why is he a fcuker? For making tough decidions that others would be too scared to do?

Shouldn't that be "decisions that others would be too fair to do" ?

connundrum

As most people would say 'ah a million or a billion, sure its all money I'll never see... whats the bleedin difference?!'

1 million minutes = 24 days (approx)
1 billions minutes = 1901 years (approx)

ShumanTheHuman

The_Minister wrote: »

Everyone realises the government figures are American billions not British billions?

As in a billion is a thousand million, not a million million.

Yeah - but a billion seconds ago short scale is 1978, long scale is 29678 BCE - think this might be from a advertising campaign circa 1990

corkcomp

My name is URL wrote: »

Why is he a fcuker? For making tough decidions that others would be too scared to do?

for making tough decisions, on disastrous situations which were in part caused by both him and his party colleagues.. just to keep things on a light note like:p

NothingMan

Sheeps wrote: »

1Billion = number of tonnes of shit this thread is worth.

So if 1 tonne of sh1t costs £2174 x Billion = 2,174,000,000,000. Wow this thread is worth over 2 Trillion pounds sterling. This is one expensive thread!

knird evol

pickarooney wrote: »

This has been done a billion times before

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055883506

How many bazillions of times have I told you not to exaggerate

Stark

That_Guy wrote: »

Had to edit your post because I've got a black style and black on black doesn't really work.

Black on black works for me. *fap* *fap*

Sofa King Great

connundrum wrote: »

1 million minutes = 24 days (approx)
1 billions minutes = 1901 years (approx)

I tihnk you should go back to the drawing board there mate!

Stark

My name is URL wrote: »

Why is he a fcuker? For making tough decidions that others would be too scared to do?

For not telling us that his billion second birthday was coming up.

sbsquarepants

NothingMan wrote: »

So if 1 tonne of sh1t costs £2174 x Billion = 2,174,000,000,000. Wow this thread is worth over 2 Trillion pounds sterling. This is one expensive thread!

Where do i collect?
Drinks on me:D

connundrum

Sofa King Great wrote: »

I tihnk you should go back to the drawing board there mate!

Fcukin quick wiki answers.

1 million minutes = 1.9 years.

To the corner with me

sbsquarepants

connundrum wrote: »

Fcukin quick wiki answers.

1 million minutes = 1.9 years.

To the corner with me

Trouble is, lennihans maths is about as good as yours!:D

loyatemu

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Lenihan Ahern, McCreevy, Cowen, Seanie, Fingers, Neary....... you f'uckers:mad:

Blame the right people here...

CountingCrows

So how many bags of rice will tonight's lotto get me?

Cookie_Monster

connundrum wrote: »

As most people would say 'ah a million or a billion, sure its all money I'll never see... whats the bleedin difference?!'

1 million minutes = 24 days (approx)
1 billions minutes = 1901 years (approx)

60x24=1440 mins a day
1,000,000/1440=694.4 days = 1.901 years

694.4 daysx1000= 694,400 days
/365 = 1901 years

EDIT: see correction.

plissken

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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.

1 Billion seconds ago it was 1959

1 Billion minutes ago Jesus was alive (allegedly!)

1 Billion hours ago it was the stone age

1 Billion days ago no one walked the earth on two feet

Lennihan....... you f'ucker:mad:

For you perhaps as the calculations you've posted are egregiously incorrect. Lenihan et al have clearly used the U.S derived understanding of the billion figure in their calculations, ie. one thousand million.

orourkeda

Deleted User wrote: »

A billion.. How many lives lost after five ****.

I thought it was more like 3 but you live and learn

TPD

So wait, does a billion in Ireland mean a thousand million or a million million?

Ruu_Old

Will I get bad luck if I don't forward this post?

Davidius

Would've thought a billion being a million squared would make a lot more sense.

Davidius

Davidius wrote: »

Would've thought a billion being a million squared would make a lot more sense.

Would it make any more sense than calling it a trillion?
What would you like to call a thousand million?

Davidius

Deleted User wrote: »

Would it make any more sense than calling it a trillion?
What would you like to call a thousand million?

I'm not sure where exactly the word 'million' comes from or anything but I suppose a trillion would make sense in some way. 10^9 = trillion would make sense if 10^6 was a billion and 10^3 was a million. Visually you'd have a 1 followed by three 'sets' of three zeroes, which represent 10^3.

That'd be my reasoning behind a billion = 10^12, the bi being used to indicate two sequences of six zeroes placed beside each other. It seems weird to have have 10^9 seeing as 9 is odd.

Personally I'd just call it a thousand million, or 'ten to the nine'. If you were really dying for a name just use kilomillion or something stupid sounding like that.

sock puppet

Davidius wrote: »

I'm not sure where exactly the word 'million' comes from or anything but I suppose a trillion would make sense in some way. 10^9 = trillion would make sense if 10^6 was a billion and 10^3 was a million. Visually you'd have a 1 followed by three 'sets' of three zeroes, which represent 10^3.

That'd be my reasoning behind a billion = 10^12, the bi being used to indicate two sequences of six zeroes placed beside each other. It seems weird to have have 10^9 seeing as 9 is odd.

Personally I'd just call it a thousand million, or 'ten to the nine'. If you were really dying for a name just use kilomillion or something stupid sounding like that.

Yes but you're not going to see the media saying things like "NAMA is to pay €5.4x10^10 for loans" anytime soon.

segaBOY

Deleted User wrote: »

What would you like to call a thousand million?

A milliard

Davidius

sock puppet wrote: »

Yes but you're not going to see the media saying things like "NAMA is to pay €5.4x10^10 for loans" anytime soon.

54 Gigaeuro :pac:

dRNk SAnTA

This thread has actually FAILED at explaining what a billion euros is!

Dermighty

The_Minister wrote: »

Everyone realises the government figures are American billions not British billions?

As in a billion is a thousand million, not a million million.

American billion = 100 million (100 x 1,000,000)

Proper billion = 1000 million (1,000 x 1,000,000)

Oisintarrant

The_Minister wrote: »

Everyone realises the government figures are American billions not British billions?

As in a billion is a thousand million, not a million million.

How has this fact escaped me until now! Thanks minister!

dRNk SAnTA

Dermighty wrote: »

American billion = 100 million (100 x 1,000,000)

Proper billion = 1000 million (1,000 x 1,000,000)

Jesus christ, where the f*ck did you go to school!

An American billion is 1,000 million - this is the number 99% of people mean when they say 1 billion)

A British Billion is 1,000,000 million (1 million million) - nobody uses this.

Sofa King Great

dRNk SAnTA wrote: »

Jesus christ, where the f*ck did you go to school!

An American billion is 1,000 million - this is the number 99% of people mean when they say 1 billion)

A British Billion is 1,000,000 million (1 million million) - nobody uses this.

Where did YOU go to school??

If nobody uses british billion and 99% use american billion what do the other 1% use?

peasant

this link might help

http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-315-billion-dollars-look-like.html

dRNk SAnTA

Sofa King Great wrote: »

Where did YOU go to school??

If nobody uses british billion and 99% use american billion what do the other 1% use?

I allowed for the numerically illiterate.

Cookie_Monster

Sofa King Great wrote: »

Where did YOU go to school??

If nobody uses british billion and 99% use american billion what do the other 1% use?

even the Brits don't use it

tech77

dRNk SAnTA wrote: »

An American billion is 1,000 million - this is the number 99% of people mean when they say 1 billion)

A British Billion is 1,000,000 million (1 million million) - nobody uses this.

So British billionaires are the richest in the world?
I wish i was a British billionaire.

OutlawPete

CountingCrows wrote: »

So how many bags of rice will tonight's lotto get me?

You can have mine for free, it's no good to me now, been on the floor counting the grains all day.

Anyone remember the scene in Only Fools and Horses where Del Boys in the Indian restaurant and the waiter asks him what kind of rice he'd like and he says: "Have you got any Uncle Bens.." :pac: