Some english-speaking people think that a billion is 1000000000 although everybody (like german speaking people do) should know that a Billion is 1000000000000?
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In some countries a  billion is (english speaking countries) = 1,000,000,000.-\n\nIn other countries a billion is (as you say in Germany, France, in all spanish talking countries and others)  = 1,000,000,000,000.-\n\n\nBoth are correct because is just a way of how they named that number but of course we have to be very careful and see if the person is english speaker or not.\n\n\n---Addition---\n \nAnother difference, in some countries they write 1.000.000.- , or 3,141592 and in other countries they write 1,000,000 and 3.141592
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As most everybody has pointed out, the answer is 1024.\n\nThe reason that it's not 1000 (as you may expect) is because unlike people (who use a base 10 for numbers), computers use a base 2 (which is why it's called binary).\n\nAnd 2 to the power of 10 = 1024.\n\nA kilobyte (KB) = 1024 bytes (2 to the power of 10)\n\nA megabyte (MB) = 1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576 bytes (2 to the power of 20)\n\nA gigabyte (GB) = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes (2 to the power of 30)
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It depends how fast you can count.  The easiest way to do it, is to suppose you can count one number every second.  Of course, the smaller the number the faster you can count (on2-two-three can be said faster than one number a second) but once you reach the bigger numbers, then it'll probably take more than a second to say it (eighy three million five hundred and ninety six) so we'll average it out to one second a number.\n\nSo it means that it would take 1 billion seconds.  Divide that by 60 once and then twice (there are 60 seconds and a minute and 60 minutes in an hour) you get 2777777.78 hours.  Divide that by 24 you get 11574 days.  You want it in years?  Divide it by 365,26 (leap years...) and voilà!  31.69 years!!
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There is no German Mark any longer. They use the Euro. But if there were, it would be about $1.00= 1.53 marks.
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if you get the million first, the second part is easier. \n\nyeah you don't ask for much ...LOL
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The mass of the Earth is roughly 5.9742 E24 kilograms.\n\nWhy the need for such an accurate number?
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This question is gibberish.  The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles.  I guess Chris W is the only one who can understand you and he doesn't know the difference between "our" and "are".  This site seems to be infested with ignorance.
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Yes. Nearly the entire world and all of the scientific community use the metric system. In order to foster the idea of globalism in the US we should unify our measurements.
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999,990\n23\n876,389\n8\n97\n2008\n192,837\n203,948\n310.567\n1\n1,000,000
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To a mathematician 1 + 1=2 right. If I were using that equation in another context it could be interpreted differently. In a nutshell the quote is saying that people sometimes interpet the same one thing differently.
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Two hundred Dollars, US.\n\nor\n\nTwo hundred US Dollars.
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nope... 01 (in binary) = 1 (in decimal)\n\nand \n\n10 (on binary) = 2 (in decimal)
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million: x 10^6\nbillion: x 10^9\ntrillion: x 10^12\nquadrillion: x 10^15\nquintillion: x 10^18\nsextillion: x 10^21\nseptillion: x 10^24\noctillion: x 10^27\nnonillion: x 10^30\ndecillion: x 10^33\nundecillion: x 10^36\nduodecillion: x 10^39\ntredecillion: x 10^42\nquattuordecillion: x 10^45\n\nI think that's great that he's in 2nd grade and asking questions like this.  Ivy League look out!
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"Computers only understand two digits, 0 and 1. This base two math is known as Binary."\n\n01001001 00100000 01100111 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00101110
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It probably just made more sense to describe the amount and then the currency.  I see some written descriptions outside the US use the currency symbol afterward, like 637$.  Maybe we should all start doing it...:-)
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trillion = 10^12 (12 zeroes)\nseptillion = 10^24 (24 zeroes)\nquintillion = 10^18 (18 zeroes) -- There is no "quintrillion", so I assume you mean "quintillion".\ngoogolplex = 10^10^100 (a googol zeroes where googol = 10^100) -- also the correct spelling of the number is googol and googolplex.  \n\nYou can see a long list in a prior answer I gave...
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13.7-billion / 7 = 1.957142857^9\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com