What is a BILLION?

[Adatise]

What is a BILLION??

This is too true to be funny

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Perm it Tax

Gasoline Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),

Liquor Tax,

Luxury Tax,

Marriage License Tax,

Medicare Tax,

Property Tax,

Real Estate Tax,

Service charge taxes,

Social Security Tax,

Road Usage Tax (Truckers),

Sales Taxes,

Recreational Vehicle Tax,

School Tax,

State Income Tax,

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),

Telephone Federal Excise Tax,

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,

Telephone Stateand Local Tax,

Telephone Usage Charge Tax,

Utility Tax,

Vehicle License Registration Tax,

Vehicle Sales Tax,

Watercraft Registration Tax,

Well Permit Tax,

Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,

and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to 'press 1' for English.

What the hell happened?????

[500,000]

whats a trillion?

[Designempire]

Nice Ad -

[randomo]

As a math teacher for many years, I've always had a complaint about numbers like "billion".

What does the prefix "bi" mean? (Keep it clean here, folks.) It means two. So why do we call 1,000,000,000 - a one followed by three groups of zeroes - a "billion"?

This is how our counting system should work (based on the number of 000 groups):

1,000 = unillion
1,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000 = trillion
etc.!

[PRED]

As a math teacher for many years, I've always had a complaint about numbers like "billion".

What does the prefix "bi" mean? (Keep it clean here, folks.) It means two. So why do we call 1,000,000,000 - a one followed by three groups of zeroes - a "billion"?

This is how our counting system should work (based on the number of 000 groups):

1,000 = unillion
1,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000 = trillion
etc.!

so really, your problem is with the number a thousand?

nice post by the way adatise

[H2FC]

Here's how I understand the large numbers...

1,000 x 1,000 is 1,000,000.....(million)
1,000 x 1,000,000 is 1,000,000,000.....(billion)
1,000 x 1,000,000,000 is 1,000,000,000,000......(trillion)
1,000 x 1,000,000,000,000 is 1,000,000,000,000,000.....(quadrillion)

and so forth.....(I hardly ever have to deal with numbers larger than this)

[Raider]

whats a trillion?

This should give you an idea;


To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."

Mitch McConnell on Sunday, February 1st, 2009 in appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"

Stimulus plan comes to more than a million bucks a day since Jesus Christ was born

In a CBS Face the Nation interview on Feb. 1, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky, sought to put the proposed economic stimulus bill into some sobering perspective.

"You know, this is huge money," McConnell said. "This is — someone said the other day that, if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion.”

The bill isn't that expensive yet — the House version is estimated at $819 billion — but the Senate is expected to add new programs and additional tax cuts that could increase the cost significantly. Both chambers are expected to keep the total pricetag under $1 trillion.

We'll save you from counting zeros on your online calculator and give you our quick and dirty assessment of whether his analogy is right.

First, a starting point. Biblical scholars may quibble about the actual birth date of Jesus Christ, but we're going to go with the fairly commonly accepted theory that it was around 4 B.C. That's right, it would mean Christ was actually born "Before Christ."

Add that to Anno Domini time, and you come to 2012 years since the birth of Christ.

So here goes our math: 2,012 times 365 (yes, we are aware there are leap years ... don't be like that) times $1,000,000. A: $734 billion (give or take a few hundred million).

The stimulus package is actually short of $1 trillion too, $819 billion. But that's still more than a million bucks a day since the day Jesus was born. We find McConnell's staggering stat to be True.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...christ-was-bo/

[south]

I drive a little more than 3 billion inches per year.