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What's a billion? Do you know?

  • 20-10-2010 7:40pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭


    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....


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

    _1500330_100euro300.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭Taxi Drivers


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

    How big is a billion?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,473 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    The amount of times this thread's been done?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    10 million $100 dollar bills.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    a billion here, a billion there.

    Pretty soon you are talking about real money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,403 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    A Trillion divided by a Million.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭cavedave


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Owwmykneecap


    knird evol wrote: »
    A Trillion divided by a Million.

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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


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

    oh, you must be one of the little people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Eight pallets of these stacked to your chest:

    _1500330_100euro300.jpg


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

    Worth the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Money is arbitrary anyway.


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