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How many commas are in a billion?
9 1,000,000,000
How Many Zeros in a Million? How Many Zeros in a Billion? Reference Chart
| Name | Number of Zeros | Written Out |
|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Thousand | 5 | 100,000 |
| One Million | 6 | 1,000,000 |
| Billion | 9 | 1,000,000,000 |
| Trillion | 12 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
Does 1 billion have 9 zeros?
Writing big numbers can take a lot of space. If you write a 1 followed by nine zeros, you get 1,000,000,000 = one billion! For example, instead of writing out a billion using nine zeros (like this: 1,000,000,000), they write it like this: 109.
How many zeros does a billion have in Germany?
An English billion is die Milliarde in German (plural Milliarden). That’s a 1 followed by 9 zeros, 1,000,000,000.
Is US billion the same as UK billion?
The old UK meaning of a billion was a million million, or one followed by twelve noughts (1,000,000,000,000). The USA meaning of a billion is a thousand million, or one followed by nine noughts (1,000,000,000). The UK government has been using the American meaning of billion since 1974 for the numbers it gives out.
How much is a UK billion?
In official UK statistics the term is now used to denote 1 thousand million – 1,000,000,000. Historically, however, in the UK the term billion meant 1 million million – 1,000,000,000,000 – but in the United States the term was used to refer to 1 thousand million.
How many zeros are there in a billion?
There are 9 zeros in a billion when we use the short scale, 1,000,000,000 (used by English speaking countries). There are 3 sets of zeros (each set has three zeros) and this is also shown as 1 x 109. To make things more complex, one billion is also called 1000 million (but I’ve not heard this number used that often).
When did they start calling a billion a billion?
Both Britain and the United States use the short system of naming the value of a billion. This is also common in most other English-speaking countries across the world. The short scale system was adopted in Britain in 1974 and continues to be used today.
Are there any numbers with 100 zeros after it?
Numbers With Very Large Numbers of Zeros. The number googol (termed by Milton Sirotta) has 100 zeros after it. Sirotta came up with the name for the number when he was just 9 years old. Here’s what the number looks like, including all of its required zeros: