phawley Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that in the past few years everything seems to be measured in Billions especially by the government.. When you take into account that a Billion is a thousand times bigger than a million how come the massive jump even inflation hasn't gone that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Because you're hearing people talk about national and global economics. If the cost of running the country was less than billions you wouldn't hear the word so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 .......... When you take into account that a Billion is a thousand times bigger than a million ..... It depends upon who's billion you are talking about! Which reminds me: George Bush was informed during the Iraq war that three Brazilian soldiers had been killed. "Oh my God!" he said "That's terrible. Remind me again - just how many is a Brazilian?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It depends upon who's billion you are talking about! No it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickw Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 American billions are a lot less than ours...so it kinda does depend on who's billions we're talking about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 American billions are a lot less than ours...so it kinda does depend on who's billions we're talking about! No, an American billion and British billion are the same. What you can get for a billion dollars may be less than what your billion pounds gets you but they're the exact same number. A billion is simply a 1 followed by 9 0's. 1000000000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickw Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Based upon a gooooogle search we have, apparently, adopted the American billion. This is a travesty and un-British. Before we had one million millions in our billion, now it has been substantially reduced to a mere one thousand millions in a billion. Bah Humbug...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Based upon a gooooogle search we have, apparently, adopted the American billion. This is a travesty and un-British. Before we had one million millions in our billion, now it has been substantially reduced to a mere one thousand millions in a billion. Bah Humbug...... It used to be different, it isn't now. It's one we had to change because our method was crap and didn't help us on a global scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depends Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 An American billion has always been one thousand million whereas an English billion was a million million. England have now adopted the American ways and a billion is a thousand million in both UK and America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickw Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It's not a method it's only numbers, so how can it be crap. And why would this be detrimental on a worldwide scale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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