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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: dbug on 04 April 2010, 17:34:49
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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 it's 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 pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
:o :o :o >:( >:( >:(
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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 it's 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 pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
:o :o :o >:( >:( >:(
......and about 1%.....of the money the British taxpayer paid to bail out greedy bankers..... ::) ::) ;)
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Sobering thought! :o
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Is this what Britain used to term a billion ie a million million or what we have adopted from across the Pond ie a thousand million? ::) ::)
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Long and short scales
1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 1012, in the long scale
1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 109, in the short scale
Hope this Helps