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  2. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000 , i.e. one thousand million , or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale . This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...

  3. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. See also: Orders of magnitude (numbers) and Long and short scales Natural number 1000000000 List of numbers Integers ← 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 Cardinal One billion (short scale) One thousand million, or one milliard (long scale) Ordinal One billionth (short ...

  4. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth. Due to its dominance in the financial world (and by the US dollar), this was adopted for official United Nations documents. Traditional French usage has varied; in 1948, France, which had originally popularized the short scale worldwide, reverted to ...

  5. How Many Billionaires Are in the World? - AOL

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    For most people, it's hard to imagine having even a million dollars, let a billion. However, fortunes totaling $1 billion -- and much, much more -- are a reality for the richest people in the...

  6. Billionaire - Wikipedia

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    A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultra high-net-worth individual .

  7. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    Typically this would apply to cells containing formulas but might apply to cells containing "constants" such as a kilogram/pounds conversion factor (2.20462262 to eight decimal places). Even though individual cells are marked as locked, the spreadsheet data are not protected until the feature is activated in the file preferences.

  8. Judge rules US must return ‘cursed’ $1B emerald to Brazil ...

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    An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...

  9. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The cost of 1 pound sterling in United States dollars 1971–2022. With the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, sterling floated from August 1971 onwards. At first, it appreciated a little, rising to almost US$2.65 in March 1972 from US$2.42, the upper bound of the band in which it had been fixed.