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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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If you stacked $1 bills on top of each other you would have to stack them 63 miles high to have a billion of them.
Euro-officials now want to create a €500bn nest egg to protect the Euro from scenarios like what's happening in Greece at the moment.
A stack of bills 31,500 miles high, no less. 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm"
you are right..... in the US and the UK, and Billion is 2 different things...
in the US, a Billion is a thousand million. so a one followed by nine zeros... 1,000,000,000
in the UK, a Billion is a million million. so a one followed by twelve zeros... 1,000,000,000,000 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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just had a look in wikipedia.... in 1974 the UK changed from the long scale to the short scale.... so a billion use to the be the one with 12 zero's but is now the one with 9 zero's.....
so whenever you look any offical figures the top one is the one you look at... |
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"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector."
We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.
Also some places up here doesn't have broadband  |
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"i might be wrong but isnt a billion different in america i have a feeling here its a thousand million but in us its a hundred million, not sure about this can anyone confirm
you are right..... in the US and the UK, and Billion is 2 different things...
in the US, a Billion is a thousand million. so a one followed by nine zeros... 1,000,000,000
in the UK, a Billion is a million million. so a one followed by twelve zeros... 1,000,000,000,000"
In the UK a Billion is a Thousand Million, no difference to the US. |
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"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.
We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.
Also some places up here doesn't have broadband "
do we?! |
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"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.
We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.
Also some places up here doesn't have broadband
do we?! "
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"I used the reference of a $1 bill because we don't have a £1 note anymore but the accepted worldwide use of the term 'billion' is the U.S. 1,000 million, certainly in the financial sector.
We still have the £1 note up here in Scotchland.
Oh hell, I thought they'd been scrapped, didn;t have many but hell where are they
Also some places up here doesn't have broadband "
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