What is a BILLION, and a TRILLION?
Sean
Here's a mental exercise for you >
1. What is a billion?
What Is A Billion? 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. (see https://www.thefuturestrader.us/)
A. A billion seconds prior to 2006 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 grammar school
long division math. Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), asked the Congress
for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it
mean?
Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman,
child), you each get $516,528.
Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1
,329,787. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington, D.C ..****O!!!... Are all your calculators broken??
2. What is a trillion?
How much bigger than a billion is a trillion? One thousand times. Three
zeros bigger. It痴 a number so big, it needs to be seen in a human context
before we can really grasp its size. So, we might say: It痴 the year 0, the
beginning of the first millennium, and you have a trillion dollars to spend,
at the rate of a million dollars a day. At just before three years, you致e
reached a billion. You keep spending, and now you are in the year 2001. You
still have 737 years to go, spending a million every day, before you reach
the end of your trillion-dollar pile.
If someone built block after block of $100,000 houses, ten houses to a
block, ten blocks to a mile葉hat's a hundred blocks per square mile揺ow big
would the project be when it reached a trillion dollars in value? It would
be 10,000 square miles葉hat's bigger than the State of Maryland.
If you were to go back to the Miocene Age, when mammals reached their
greatest variety (19 millions years ago), spending one dollar every minute,
day and night, seven days a week ($526,000 each year) you would just now run
through your trillion dollars.
3. Now you know
Now we have the context. This America Total Debt Report shows that the
private and government sectors of the economy have more than $53 Trillion of
debt.
$53 Trillion !!!!!
WOW !!!!
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80% ($42 trillion) of total debt was created since 1990,
a period primarily driven by debt instead of by productive activity.
And, the above does not include un-funded pensions and medical promises.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm
wernertrp
> WHAT IS A BILLION? WHAT IS A TRILLION?
> Here's a mental exercise for you >
>
> 1. What is a billion?
>
> What Is A Billion? 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
>
> A. A billion seconds prior to 2006 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 grammar school
> long division math. Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), asked the Congress
> for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it
> mean?
>
> Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman,
> child), you each get $516,528.
>
> Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1
> ,329,787. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
> Washington, D.C ..****O!!!... Are all your calculators broken??
>
> 2. What is a trillion?
> How much bigger than a billion is a trillion? One thousand times. Three
> before we can really grasp its size. So, we might say: It’s the year 0, the
> beginning of the first millennium, and you have a trillion dollars to spend,
> reached a billion. You keep spending, and now you are in the year 2001. You
> still have 737 years to go, spending a million every day, before you reach
> the end of your trillion-dollar pile.
>
> If someone built block after block of $100,000 houses, ten houses to a
> would the project be when it reached a trillion dollars in value? It would
>
> If you were to go back to the Miocene Age, when mammals reached their
> greatest variety (19 millions years ago), spending one dollar every minute,
> day and night, seven days a week ($526,000 each year) you would just now run
> through your trillion dollars.
>
> 3. Now you know
> Now we have the context. This America Total Debt Report shows that the
> private and government sectors of the economy have more than $53 Trillion of
> debt.
>
> $53 Trillion !!!!!
>
> WOW !!!!
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> 80% ($42 trillion) of total debt was created since 1990,
> a period primarily driven by debt instead of by productive activity.
>
> And, the above does not include un-funded pensions and medical promises.
>
> http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm
You guys are bigger.
1000 times in the us.
1 billion us = 1 milliarde europe
Big Tits:
the same with the Cup calculation.
Cup C us = Cup D germany.
JerryCic
USA one billion is 1,000,000,000. In England one trillion is 1,000,000 time
a billion but in the USA one trillion is 1,000 times a billion.
"Sean" <b...@peace.now> wrote in message
news:48ec4b45$0$31802$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
> zeros bigger. It's a number so big, it needs to be seen in a human context
> before we can really grasp its size. So, we might say: It's the year 0,
> the beginning of the first millennium, and you have a trillion dollars to
> spend, at the rate of a million dollars a day. At just before three years,
> you've reached a billion. You keep spending, and now you are in the year
> 2001. You still have 737 years to go, spending a million every day, before
> you reach the end of your trillion-dollar pile.
>
> If someone built block after block of $100,000 houses, ten houses to a
> block, ten blocks to a mile-that's a hundred blocks per square mile-how
> big would the project be when it reached a trillion dollars in value? It
> would be 10,000 square miles-that's bigger than the State of Maryland.
Sean
"JerryCic" <Jerr...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:B_KdnQ_Td83cfnPV...@comcast.com...
>I may be wrong but In Englad, one billion is 1,000,000,000,000 whereas in
>USA one billion is 1,000,000,000. In England one trillion is 1,000,000 time
>a billion but in the USA one trillion is 1,000 times a billion.
>
>
Hi Jerry, yes it was that way here too. But I and others have stopped trying
to avert the overwhlming power of the USA to swamp me with their "system" of
doing things .... like z for s, destroying aluminium, and nite and all the
rest. <smile>
OK, :), so maybe an interesting question is when the BoE just spent a few
Billion Pounds recently, did they count that as UK billions [ the original
and proper way to count ] , or did they spend US billions?
There's a billion reasons to know which it was?
My reckoning tells me that sometimes in the obscure past, our Govt has been
speaking in US billions and Trillions ..... I bet it sounded better for the
govt to say we have now hit a Trillion $ in GDP as a Nation.
Either way I have surrendered to the plundering of Good English by our
American friends and just accept it now. Just like I had to accept metric
from the French back in the 70's <smile>