How do you prenounce this number.

Simmz

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On a most calculators you can enter ten numbers.

1000000000 would be 1 billion

How do you say

9999999999

Sorry having a very stupid moment and doing some stupid quiz :P


Cheers.
 
Simmz said:
9,999,999,999

Cheers.
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Erm, nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine?

Or if you use the American definition of billion (1000 million), it'd be a billion in the place of the first thousand.

I should be doing work right now.
 
If we knew what prenounce meant maybe somebody could answer, is it like a pre-emptive strike on pronunciation?

Sorry, but it made me giggle :)
 
Considering the most vastly used across the world is that the named figures are to powers of a thousand, that is what people use these days.

1000^1 Thousand
1000^2 Million
1000^3 Billion
1000^4 Trillion

etc etc.
 
Dano said:
If we knew what prenounce meant maybe somebody could answer, is it like a pre-emptive strike on pronunciation?

Sorry, but it made me giggle :)
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I've only just spotted that, that will be another point on the quiz.

The actual question says that instead of pronounce.

It's all linked in with the test.

Get the answers back on Monday, so will put the questions up here for everyone to try.
 
Hmm, a million million is a billion and a trillion at the same time?

1,000,000 x 1,000,000
=
1,000,000,000,000


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Ahh, a 'trillion' on the short scale is 1,000,000,000,000 where as a 'trillion' on the long scale is 1,000,000,000.

However it says:

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United Kingdom uniformly used the long scale,[2] whilst the United States of America used the short scale,[2] so that usage of the two systems was often referred to as "British" and "American" respectively. In 1974 the government of the UK abandoned the long scale, so that the UK now applies the short scale interpretation exclusively in mass media and official usage.[3][4][5] Although some residual long-scale usage still continues, the terms "British" and "American" no longer represent accurate terminology.
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So it's correct to use the short scale now. But you can use the longscale if you want to be misunderstood. :p
 
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Depends when you were born and which scale you were taught. My Mum would say a Billion is 10e12, I would say its 10e9.

mp3kla said:
So it's correct to use the short scale now. But you can use the longscale if you want to be misunderstood. :p
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Again that depends who you're speaking with, my Mum still thinks in lbs and oz's. Always will, spent longer alive under the old system than the new.
 
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