1000000000 | |
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Cardinal | One billion (short scale) One milliard (long scale) One thousand million |
Ordinal | One billionth (short scale) |
Factorization |
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Greek numeral | |
Roman numeral | M |
Binary | 1110111001101011001010000000002 |
Ternary | 21202002000210100013 |
Senary | 2431212453446 |
Octal | 73465450008 |
Duodecimal | 23AA9385412 |
Hexadecimal | 3B9ACA0016 |
1,000,000,000 ("one billion" on the short scale; "one milliard" on the long scale; one thousand million) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bil [1] or bn. [2] [3]
In standard form, it is written as 1 × 109. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G .
One billion years may be called an eon in astronomy or geology.
Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However, this is not common anymore, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades. [4]
The term milliard could also be used to refer to 1,000,000,000; whereas "milliard" is rarely used in English, [5] variations on this name often appear in other languages.
In the Indian numbering system, it is known as 100 crore or 1 arab.
1,000,000,000 is also the cube of 1000.
It is a common metric used in macroeconomics when describing national economies.
The facts below give a sense of how large 1,000,000,000 (109) is in the context of time according to current scientific evidence:
A is a cube; B consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube A, C consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube B; and D consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube C. Thus there are 1 millionA-sized cubes in C; and 1,000,000,000 A-sized cubes in D.