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"1,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000? I was taught that it's a million million, but it seems that's no longer the case" A UK billion used to be a million, million, but it was changed to the American Billion (a thousand-million) sometime either later 70's or early 80's due, so I understand, to the planned 'Big Bang' in the city which brought in global automated trading. Computers would have struggled to ratify transactions, so it got set at the US Billion... as they would have thrown their toys out the pram if they had to use ours instead.. well... something like that.... 
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"1,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000? I was taught that it's a million million, but it seems that's no longer the case A UK billion used to be a million, million, but it was changed to the American Billion (a thousand-million) sometime either later 70's or early 80's due, so I understand, to the planned 'Big Bang' in the city which brought in global automated trading. Computers would have struggled to ratify transactions, so it got set at the US Billion... as they would have thrown their toys out the pram if they had to use ours instead.. well... something like that....
ted."Ah, I wasn't a billion miles away!  | |||
"1,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000? I was taught that it's a million million, but it seems that's no longer the case A UK billion used to be a million, million, but it was changed to the American Billion (a thousand-million) sometime either later 70's or early 80's due, so I understand, to the planned 'Big Bang' in the city which brought in global automated trading. Computers would have struggled to ratify transactions, so it got set at the US Billion... as they would have thrown their toys out the pram if they had to use ours instead.. well... something like that....
ted.
Ah, I wasn't a billion miles away! " | |||
" Ah, I wasn't a billion miles away! "that has to be the geekiest joke on here | |||
" Ah, I wasn't a billion miles away!
that has to be the geekiest joke on here"Hey... there was no star trek reference! | |||
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Gill | |||
"Just had a quick Google" ....so, what's a "google"?... | |||
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"Just had a quick Google ....so, what's a "google"?..." Google is a web search machine.... Googol is 1 with 100 zeroes after it....  | |||
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" A Googleplex is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it. Saw a good documentary about it. If you tried counting out loud from 1 to a googleplex it would take you several thousand years" That's wrong, a googolplex is a 1 followed by 10,000 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion zeros. Although that's still not the biggest. Graham's number is huge, so huge no-one knows what the number is. | |||
"1,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000? I was taught that it's a million million, but it seems that's no longer the case" A billion is: 1,000,000,000 Easiest way to work it out is. Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten million, hundred million, a billion, ten billion, hundred billion, one trillion, ten trillion, hundred trillion and so on  | |||
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" A Googleplex is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it. Saw a good documentary about it. If you tried counting out loud from 1 to a googleplex it would take you several thousand years That's wrong, a googolplex is a 1 followed by 10,000 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion zeros." I saw this answer on wiki.... For googolplex...;-) I also saw googol to the power googol, where googol is 100 zeroes to the power 100 zeroes.... Or 1 with 10,000 zeroes... A Googolplexian being Googolplex to the power Googol..... 1 with a million zeroes.... 
My question is.... How can I get a job in the Googolplex....???? | |||
"Makes sense, every extra 3 digits gets new name 1,000. Thousand 1,000,000. Million 1,000,000,000. Billion 1,000,000,000,000. Trillion A Googleplex is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it. Saw a good documentary about it. If you tried counting out loud from 1 to a googleplex it would take you several thousand years" I'd wager it wouldn't. 100 years tops. | |||
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"This is easier to understand about Googol and googolplex http://youtu.be/8GEebx72-qs" Noooooooooooo..... My brain fried half way through that one....   | |||
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"ZZZZZ zzzzzzz ZZZZZZZZ zzzzzz "Yeah..I shouldn't have asked wtf a Google was. | |||
"Makes sense, every extra 3 digits gets new name 1,000. Thousand 1,000,000. Million 1,000,000,000. Billion 1,000,000,000,000. Trillion A Googleplex is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it. Saw a good documentary about it. If you tried counting out loud from 1 to a googleplex it would take you several thousand years I'd wager it wouldn't. 100 years tops. "Three years is around 100 million seconds... 100 years is around 3.15 Billion seconds.... 317 years is around 1 Trillion seconds... 1 trillion only has 12 zeroes after the 1..... 1000 years is around 3.16 trillion seconds.... 2013 years is around 6.36 trillion seconds.... Psst.... We're still only on 12 zeroes... A Googol has 100 of the little beggars....
*Furtles off to find an aspirin.... Or six.... * | |||
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"If science says that the earth is 4.54 billion years old.... That would be around 15 with only 18 zeroes after it.... "Finally, taking 13.7 billion years as Einstein's age of the universe, since the big bang, or the week God created everything.... This would be around 42.3 with only 18 zeroes after it....
Perhaps this is why 42 is the universal answer to everything...... | |||
"I like the recent story of a man who was accidentally given 92 quadrillion dollars by Paypal. They withdrew it straight after but can u imagine the interest he would have got if he had invested it. "Invested it where?! 92 quadrillion dollars is over 1000 times greater than the world's GDP. | |||
"If science says that the earth is 4.54 billion years old.... That would be around 15 with only 18 zeroes after it....
Finally, taking 13.7 billion years as Einstein's age of the universe, since the big bang, or the week God created everything....
This would be around 42.3 with only 18 zeroes after it....
Perhaps this is why 42 is the universal answer to everything...... "Hey Eurotongu... This is what the Fuxx I'm doing with you: http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/lounge/190695#message_3466609  | |||
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"Ah but I bet you can't put a rowntrees fruit pastel in your mouth without chewing!!!!!" Noooooooooooo...!!! | |||
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"1,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000? I was taught that it's a million million, but it seems that's no longer the case A billion is: 1,000,000,000 Easiest way to work it out is. Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten million, hundred million, a billion, ten billion, hundred billion, one trillion, ten trillion, hundred trillion and so on "so its not a thousand million, ten thousand million, a hundred thousand million then a billion? | |||
"I was taught that a billion is a million million (1,000,000,000,000). But USA is a thousand million (1,000,000,000)." Same as me | |||
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"So what is the population of the Earth 7,000,000,000 or 7,000,000,000,000" Seven thousand million...
Unless we wanna work on 7000,000,001 Sharon....  | |||
"So what is the population of the Earth 7,000,000,000 or 7,000,000,000,000" In 2020 it will reach 7 billion. That's all I go by. I go by words not numbers as different countries use different amount of zeros. | |||
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