How many millions make a billion ? is it different in the u.k and america?
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Well think about it..
You got 1 million, 2 million.. 999 million.. then you flip over to 1 billion.
It goes like such.
Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion
Quitillion
Sextillion
Septillion
Octillion
Nonitillion
Decitillion. etc.
Go check out this entry on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trillion).
No 1000 million is a billion, wherever you are.
Well a thousand million make a billion in the UK, Hopefully an American will answer as well and you can compare!
I "think" but am not totally sure, that in Britain a Thousand millions = a billion, but in USA its a Hundred millions = a billion.
I know that I think its 1000million = billion.
Hope that helps? Probably not, 'cos i'm not definate!
in the uk is diffrent because a pound is bigger than a dollar
1000 million make a billion in the US. In the UK it was 1000000 million when I was at school, but I have noticed a trend towards using the American billion more.
1000.
no it is different
100 million is a billion everywhere but the uk
1000 million is a billion in the uk
I think the American Billion is 1,000 million (10e9) and the accepted norm while the British Billion is much larger at 1 million, million (10e12). Hence so many more American 'Billionaires'.
It used to be the case that a UK billion was 1 million million, but we now seem to have adopted the American version and that is that 1Billion = 1000 million.
Confuses old gits like me..especially as we have gone decimal and the Yanks still work in feet and inches!
In non English speaking countries
10^6 = million
10^9 = milliard
10^12 = billion
10^15 = billiard
10^18 = trillion
10^24 = quadrillion
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So 1 billion = a million times a million
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in the UK
1000 million is = to 1billion
in the is 10,000 million is - to 1 billion hence
the UK billion is 1,000,000,000
and US billion is 10,000,000,000
1000
Officially a billion was a million million in the UK and a thousand million in the USA. Now the american version has been adopted here too - just like we have started calling 'films' 'movies'.
In GB it's 1,000,000x1,000,000= a billion
In the USA it's 1,000x1,000,000= a billion
However, there is a trend in GB to use the American version don't no why but I suppose it would make business dealings with an American difficult if we used different figures.
many of the later answers are correct.
both are now using 1,000 million for a billion; up until 10-15 years ago, an American billion was "a thousand million" British, and a British billion was an American trillion.
no one has ever used 100 million for a billion.
Yes, it is. In the UK it's a million million and in the US it's a thousand million.
First question: Don't know.
Second question: Yes.
Can't handle zeros - thank God for the Euro!
Yes it's different in the UK & USA. A billion here is 1 million million. A billion in the USA I believe is 1000 million.
The "traditional" value of a billion is a million million, just as a million is a thousand thousand. However this was changed in the US for reason or reasons unknown, and has come to be adopted around the english speaking world. Probably 'cos a traditional billion is a number that'd be rarely used (i.e. it is a 'modern' trillion, 1 * 10^12). How often d'you use that outside of science lessons? And Bill Gates bank account obviously.
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