Jul 29, 2023

A 13 year ago repeat....

 A popular posting of mine from 2010:

The Million vs Billion quandary

One of the posts that tends to get the most visitors on this website, originally posted 13 years ago:   

 I hear people treat a "Billion" as if it's the next logical number after one Million...similar to going from a dime to a dollar.
     But a Billion is so much more than that. These graphics come from The MegaPenny Project, showing the relative size of a Million pennies and a Billion pennies....the web site goes into much more detail than I will here. They say, for example, that only in the U.S. is the word "Billion" used...elsewhere they refer to it as a Thousand-Million.




1-Million Pennies
1-Billion Pennies

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