What's a billion? Do you know?

egan007

4/5 billion in cuts....

What's one more...

Unless you are a CEO of a large multinational you probably don't deal in Billions often. So 'Billion' is just a unit that we throw around like 'Litre' or 'Mile' units we have no problem expressing in 1 or two digits....We have got used of 'Million' so we are not afraid of it.

Cut to the chase...ok

We need to see a billion in a measurement that we can relate to....

Time?
1 million seconds = 11.5740741 days
1 billion seconds = 31.6887646 years

Yep years....

Amhran Nua

Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

namloc1980

One billion buses, each 10m long and stacked end on end, would cover the distance from the Earth to the Moon over 26 TIMES!

Taxi Drivers

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

How big is a billion?

Sleepy

5 Billion is €547,945.21 every day for the next 25 years.

Or: €1179.29 for every man, woman and child in the country.

Before interest.

bluefinger

The amount of times this thread's been done?

hinault

10 million $100 dollar bills.

Permabear

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Rabble Rabble

a billion here, a billion there.

Pretty soon you are talking about real money.

jimmycrackcorm

A new dimension when playing Monopoly. Instead of buying a street - you get to buy a whole country.

One of the papers did an article on what the banking bailout money could have purchased for us instead which really puts in into perspective. Though while we are wasting money anyway my favourite idea was the colonisation of Mars...

knird evol

A Trillion divided by a Million.

cavedave

Pave the Croke park pitch with 20 euro notes. 40 notes deep

Owwmykneecap

knird evol wrote: »

A Trillion divided by a Million.

You wouldn't happen to be a banker or government official would you?

knird evol

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

You wouldn't happen to be a banker or government official would you?

oh, you must be one of the little people

Geuze

knird evol wrote: »

A Trillion divided by a Million.

is incorrect.

1,000
1,000,000 = million
1,000,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000,000 = trillion

and so on, always adding 3 zeros, or multiplying by a thousand

beeno67

knird evol wrote: »

A Trillion divided by a Million.

A trillion divided by a million is a million. A billion is a thousand million.

knird evol

Geuze wrote: »

is incorrect.

1,000
1,000,000 = million
1,000,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000,000 = trillion

and so on, always adding 3 zeros, or multiplying by a thousand

that's one definition of a trillion

JazzyJ

knird evol wrote: »

that's one definition of a trillion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Short_scale_countries_and_regions

Generally 1,000,000,000,000 is a trillion in Ireland.

dunsandin

So, basically, a billion is a lot of dosh. If you remove lots of "a lot of doshes" from an economy, it leaves-a lot less dosh. The headlines today were about a decade long "lost generation". Much like Japans "lost generation". It seems the government has gotten as comfortable talking bilions as they used to be talking millions, and thats a dangerouse place to be. Millions you can get over, Billions take a bit more replacing. I think we are going to coast to Christmas, and into a bleak new year.

johnnyskeleton

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

Or just a line on a computer somehwhere:
1,000,000,000.

Worth the same.

FreudianSlippers

Money is arbitrary anyway.