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Old 19 March 2006, 07:57 PM   #31
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A trillion is the amount of words JJ can get in when he has a conversation with a guy who can merely get in a dozen or so!!

Seriously though, a billion is a thousand million written thus: 1,000,000,000.
A trillion is a thousand billion written thus: 1,000,000,000,000.
And I think the next one up would be a Zillion which is a thousand trillion and written thus: 1,000,000,000,000,000.

So to summarise: a Billion is one and 9 zeros; a trillion is one and 12 zeros; a zillion is one and 15 zeros.

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Not where I come from JJ,there are other places on this Planet out side of America.Historically, there are two different kinds of billions. There is an American billion, which is. 1,000,000,000 . And the British billion which is. 1,000,000,000,000.which one would you rather have in cash if you could.
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Old 19 March 2006, 08:40 PM   #32
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I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK.

Not where I come from JJ,there are other places on this Planet out side of America.Historically, there are two different kinds of billions. There is an American billion, which is. 1,000,000,000 . And the British billion which is. 1,000,000,000,000.which one would you rather have in cash if you could.
Padi,

I just looked up the word billion in the Oxford Dictionary and it comes up as a million million which would be 1,000,000,000,000 and which is what you've typed above!

I guess the Americans would consider it still as just a thousand million.

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Old 19 March 2006, 08:51 PM   #33
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I just looked up the word billion in the Oxford Dictionary and it comes up as a million million which would be 1,000,000,000,000 and which is what you've typed above!

I guess the Americans would consider it still as just a thousand million.

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So it looks like that everything is not bigger in America after all.
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Old 20 March 2006, 02:49 AM   #34
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So it looks like that everything is not bigger in America after all.
Sure it is, thats just how we down play the national debt
Instead of calling it lying the feds changed the name to "new math"
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Old 20 March 2006, 02:50 AM   #35
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A trillion is the amount of words JJ can get in when he has a conversation with a guy who can merely get in a dozen or so!!

Seriously though, a billion is a thousand million written thus: 1,000,000,000.
A trillion is a thousand billion written thus: 1,000,000,000,000.
And I think the next one up would be a Zillion which is a thousand trillion and written thus: 1,000,000,000,000,000.

So to summarise: a Billion is one and 9 zeros; a trillion is one and 12 zeros; a zillion is one and 15 zeros.

Cheers - JJ
I ended up with almost 17 words in there
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I ended up with almost 17 words in there
Boy, don't I just love to yak!!
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yeah but............................well............... ...........................I don't....................................mayb..... ............................ I know this looks silly, but it's actually exactly how you sound when you try to talk to JJ
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Old 20 March 2006, 04:16 AM   #38
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yeah but............................well............... ...........................I don't....................................mayb..... ............................ I know this looks silly, but it's actually exactly how you sound when you try to talk to JJ
Just ONE of my weaknesses, I guess!
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Yes, that and chewing corn while talking
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That wasn't my fault....you can blame my daughter for that one!!
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That wasn't my fault....you can blame my daughter for that one!!
I've been to two stores so far today looking for corn on the cobb
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I've been to two stores so far today looking for corn on the cobb
Ask Daren to ship you some....I hear they have plenty of that in Texas!
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