1 Quadrillion

[tres]

How many billions in a quadrillion?

 

[trent]

1million

 

[Tefal]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta-


Depends on if it's short or long scale, most things are done in short (American) rather than long (British)

 

[tres]

Just came across this in a BBC article:

At the moment Verisign logs 53 billion requests for websites - not just dotcoms - every day, about the same number handled for all of 1995.

"We expect that to grow in 2020 to somewhere between three and four quadrillion," Mr McLaughlin told BBC News.

One quadrillion is 1,000 billion.

I thought a thousand billion was a trillion?

 

[Cosimo]

The American or British version:

http://www.quadrillion.com/number.shtm

 

[tres]

Thus in the USA, a billion is 1,000,000,000 (109) and a quadrillion is a mere 1,000,000,000,000,000. (1015).
In the British system, which is in use in the rest of the world, the Latin prefix represents the power of a million, thus a British billion is 1,000,000,000,000 (1012) and a British quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1024).

So the BBC have got it wrong then, even if they do take the US version?

 

[Artheas]

How many billions in a quadrillion?

"A billion" was my original response, but after reading the links... i now don't even remember if i thought a billion was 10^9 or 10 ^12

 

[frying_pan_cat]

"A billion" was my original response, but after reading the links... i now don't even remember if i thought a billion was 10^9 or 10 ^12

It must have been 10^12 for the answer to be correct

 

[Tefal]

Just came across this in a BBC article:



I thought a thousand billion was a trillion?

bbc in ****ing up and inflating number shocker

 

[Jonny69]

Generally everyone uses the American quadrillion these days which is 10^15. Their system means nothing to me though, as a scientist I use the English (correct) system. We had a Zimbabwean financial database at my last work that had to debase because the numbers were getting too big for it to handle. They were about to need to use quadrillions but instead the country decided to devalue their currency, hence the debase.

 

[Jonny69]

For the trecord, the American system is this:

Million: 1,000,000
Billion: 1,000,000,000
Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000
Quadrillion:, 1,000,000,000,000,000

 

[4T5]

Imagine having a Quadrillion packets of Space Dust, I reckon I could take out a building.

 

[Efour]

I see you watched the BBC thing about the universe too !

what was it 1 Quadrillionth of a second after the big bang the universe has expanded a Quadrillion- quadrillion times?!!?

Quite a far fetched theory isn't it really :O

 

[tres]

I see you watched the BBC thing about the universe too !

what was it 1 Quadrillionth of a second after the big bang the universe has expanded a Quadrillion- quadrillion times?!!?

Quite a far fetched theory isn't it really :O

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8567414.stm

At the bottom!

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Imagine having a Quadrillion packets of Space Dust, I reckon I could take out a building.

Space dust?

 

[998cc]

Space dust?

Those sweets that come in little packets that pop on your tongue?

 

[Redmint]

I see you watched the BBC thing about the universe too !

what was it 1 Quadrillionth of a second after the big bang the universe has expanded a Quadrillion- quadrillion times?!!?

Quite a far fetched theory isn't it really :O

That's some rapid expansion.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Those sweets that come in little packets that pop on your tongue?

Oh right, try getting a few packets of them, pouring the lot in your mouth, and swallowing immediately. Put me right of them it did.

 

[998cc]

Oh right, try getting a few packets of them, pouring the lot in your mouth, and swallowing immediately. Put me right of them it did.

I did that once with a can of coke to wash them down.

Thought my stomach was going to explode

 

[Tefal]

I did that once with a can of coke to wash them down.

Thought my stomach was going to explode

just hope the top sphincter blows before the bottom one tbh