How do you write a billion?

[Mr.Sam]

How do you write a billion?
wikipedia states that people use either of two ways.


Billion may mean:

Either of two numbers (see long and short scales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales) for more detail):
1,000,000,000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000_%28number%29) (one thousand million; 109) - increasingly common meaning in English language usage
1,000,000,000,000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000000_%28number%29) (one million million; 1012) - increasingly rare meaning in English language usage; standard meaning in many other languages

[dirrty]

i write 1 billion

[brandon]

1,000,000,000

[hobo]

1,000,000,000,000

[-Wolverine]

It's the bottom one.

[FlyingJesus]

1,000,000,000,000 or 10^12

A million million = a billion

[kasi]

i write 1 billion

what he said

[-Soph-]

top one for moi

[RedStratocas]

Definatly the first. Otherwise, what would 1,000,000,000 be?

[FlyingJesus]

Definatly the first. Otherwise, what would 1,000,000,000 be?

A thousand million.. that's like asking why 10000 isn't a million.

[Robzor]

top one please

[hobo]

Definatly the first. Otherwise, what would 1,000,000,000 be?

a thousand million.

[-Wolverine]

Wait, I mean the top one.

Bottom one I think is 1 trillion, for the top, the first 3 zero's are 1 thousand, then the next 3 zero's are hundred thousand, then the next 3 zero's are 1 hundred million, and with the next 1, it's a billion.

[Axel]

I think the number billion is 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000) but the money billion is 1000 million (1,000,000,000)

[348GTS]

1,000,000,000

[velvet]

1,000,000,000,000 for me.

[irresistible]

i write 1 billion :}!

[womanizer]

1,000,000,000

A billion is 1000 million

[Caution]

1 billion.

[Seatherny]

1,000,000,000

[RedStratocas]

a thousand million.

That makes no sense, haha. The comas are where a new name starts.

And plus, there's 6 billion people on earth, not 6 thousand million.

[FlyingJesus]

That makes no sense, haha. The comas are where a new name starts.

And plus, there's 6 billion people on earth, not 6 thousand million.

No the commas occur every 3 numbers, no matter what the number. Technically 1000 should be written 1,000 each time.

And a thousand million is a thousand million, a million million is a billion.

[benjamin]

i use the top way.

[shiver]

1,000,000,000

just a million with 3 noughts on the end (I think)

[Zuar]

top 1.
bottom 1 is trilion

[benjamin]

1,000,000,000

just a million with 3 noughts on the end (I think)
that is what i thought, and then as the user above said, the bottom is a trillion (or whatever comes next)

[:Hazel]

well one million is 1,000,000 so 1 billion to me is 1,000,000,000

[Italic]

A billion is the top one. A trillion is the bottom one. For me :P.

[Roboevil]

It's the second one, 1,000,000,000,000, the other one is rubbish as it's only a thousand million. If you look at the word, "billion," bi meaning 2, it means a million million. The other one, 1,000,000,000 is the American term and Americans are stupid. However as international currency is shown in $, we also use the American number for a billion when using money as it's smaller. I assume anyway.

Whoever voted the other one, i.e;

---ANGRY---, .:.:.Sammeth.:.:., :Hazel, Bisto, Brandon, Cussons!, Italic, ksoz, liar, lube, MwH, Pingu., RedStratocas, tyo22, unorthodox

You're nubs :), except Redstratocas as he's American so it doesn't count.

[crans]

there's a uk way, theres a usa way.

[Roboevil]

there's a uk way, theres a usa way.

Thankyou for repeating what I just said, have a trillion- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

[Stitch]

i write 1,000,000,000,000

[Herman]

I never actually realised how many zeros a billion has. But I made a guess it was the second one anyway.

[darkchicken101]

UK usage

"Billion" has meant 10^9 in some sectors of official published writing for many years now, but this usage is not uniformly accepted. The UK government, the BBC, and most other broadcast or published mass media, use the short scale exclusively in all contexts. Anyone using billion to mean 10^12 in British English may be misunderstood; however the "traditional usage" of a billion to mean 10^12 is not unknown and occasionally taught in some sectors of education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

I think 1 billion is 1,000,000,000.

[louder]

1,000,000,000,000

[Djcafc.]

the one with 9 naughts

[N!ck]

1 000 000 000 for me.

1 000 000 000 000 is the "traditional useage" of a billion. Twenty thousand million (20 000 000 000) doesn't sound right, so it is twenty billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers

[brapbrap]

WHEN would you need to write it?

Not exactly going to write 1,000,000,000,000 only, anytime soon are you....:d



I honestly dont know :S

[RedStratocas]

It's the second one, 1,000,000,000,000, the other one is rubbish as it's only a thousand million. If you look at the word, "billion," bi meaning 2, it means a million million. The other one, 1,000,000,000 is the American term and Americans are stupid. However as international currency is shown in $, we also use the American number for a billion when using money as it's smaller. I assume anyway.

Whoever voted the other one, i.e;

---ANGRY---, .:.:.Sammeth.:.:., :Hazel, Bisto, Brandon, Cussons!, Italic, ksoz, liar, lube, MwH, Pingu., RedStratocas, tyo22, unorthodox

You're nubs :), except Redstratocas as he's American so it doesn't count.

But it is bimillion, its billion. So its 2 llions. Whatever the hell those are. And youre right, Im an American. I have an excuse for my stupidity.

[Krusty]

1 billion = one thousand million :)

1,000,000,000

000 = hundred
next 000 = hundred thousand
the nxt 3 0's. i dno wot they are but i fink thts Millions? Yeah it is.

[cocaine]

its a million million

izzit?

[Krusty]

no
i think its
one thousand million.
or maybe its 100 million?
WHO KNOWS?!