Posted: 9/20/2006 5:54:20 PM EDT
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don't know who came up with this but it makes you think. If you want you can double check with a calculator....or pen and paper If you are given one dollar every minute from the time you are born it takes about eleven and a half days to get a million and a little over 30 or 31 years under the same circumstances to get a billion dollars.... makes you think doesn't it edit cause i meant minute not second...i think...maybe it was second...damn pain medications sec edit cause it is a sec.....again damn meds |
you are so right ill edit the change but i hada bad spill on the bike at work yesterday and i am on tylox..and had morphine yesterday..lol |
WTF? I think you added too many zeros. 
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no it is a sec not a minute i just re did it |
well i am legally stoned i apologize |
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My friend owns a limo company and hosted the richest man from the Philippines, one of the richest men in the world (billionaire). When asked the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire: "Millionaires love things. Billionaires love money." Interesting take on it I guess... |
He actually had a legitimate question. I didn't know the following until a few months ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion Billion may mean: * 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million), used by most English-speaking countries (American and usual modern British meaning) * 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million), used by most other countries outside Asia (older British meaning) * for the history of these two discrepant meanings, see long and short scales |
Wow! and I didn't know that until a few seconds ago.  Dang, math used to be the one thing that was the same no matter where you go. |
In one way, yes - both are three orders of magnitude apart. 10^0 to 10^3 is 1,000 times larger and 10^6 to 10^9 is also 1,000 times larger. But numerically, the difference between 1 and 1,000 is 999 while the differnce between 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 is 999,000,000. That's a big difference there. |
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Million means absolutely nothing. Govt can't buy anything. Barely enough to cover expenses used to grease the chian of bureaucratic hierarchy. Billion is worth a Million in Govt currency. NOw the Govt can buy a Million $$ worth of stuff. The rest gets spent on greasing the chain of bureaucratic hierarchy... 
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somwthing for me to show the kids thanks that is cool |
| Check this sight also. Great explanations of magnitude. Go to the site map and look for "How big is a billion". |
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In the United States, “billion” means a thousand million. Or, a one followed by nine zeros. (1,000,000,000) But in Great Britain a billion means a million million which is a one followed by twelve zeros. (1,000,000,000,000) It’s a pretty big difference. Since both are just names attached to numbers, both are correct. But to put into perspective the difference between a million and an American billion the ARFCOM way… It’s approximately the difference between about five rounds of Wolf .223 and a new AR-15. |