maths

[bednobs]

sorry, i'm rubbish and have no idea how many 0's a billion is. What is 500 billion divided by 60 million please

[zebo]

500 billion = 500 000 000 000

60 million = 60 000 000


Cross of 7 zeros

50 000
6

= 8333.33 recurring

[zebo]

That's using billion to be 1 and 9 zeros, ie thousand million, used to be 12 zeros in the UK, ie a million million but we downgraded it to please the USA!

[bednobs]

blimey - i heard on the news today that the total benefits bill for the year is 500 billion - can it possibly be right that's enough for 8k per person per year??

[bednobs]

thanks both BTW

[zebo]

Looks that way, doesn't it, I'll forego the recurring, they can just send me the 8000!

[tamborine]

https://www.google.co...d330&biw=1280&bih=693

Must take the iphone when Letterman interiews me :)

[Prudie]

I'd disagree methyl as did zebo. A billion in US has always been a thousand million. In UK it used to be a million million but we now adopt the thousand million same as US.

[bibblebub]

bring back the milliard