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Writing A Billion

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
December
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Bgure-sharp in the Boston Globe Baya: "Firstly, as to the tu ivays of oa'ming a billiön, yes ; one a the proper raethod which calis 1,000,000,000 a billinn, and which, being aceepted through ignorance, is eönsidered correct but mathematically eonBidered it is incorrect, for a biliion is 1,000,000,000,060, and for this reason, in anumeratinji, et ns we s:iy in school , "pointing off places," we begin itli the unit, and, proceeding in regular arithmetica) pregression, we repeat èacfa preceding enumeration in regular rotation. Tlnis we begin witli unit, tons, dreds, tbousands, ten thousands, liundred thöüaands, millions. ïluis yoa see after hundreds, when pointing the tliousaiuls, we take first the 1,000 whieh is the uuit, then the 10's thousands, then the 100's tliousaiuls. Now, as tliis applies to thousands, so it does to inillions, only that, as in the thousands wc and with the hundreds, in the niilhons we end with thougands, iz: Unit-millimi ; 0 inillion; 100 M. 10 hundfed or 1,000 M. 10000 M. IO0O00 M. 1,000,000 M. equal 1 billion - or escaping the hundreds to raise an aritbmetica] point to is ucxt higher deeree, it must 6e niultiplied by itself. Thus 10x10 equala 100; 1000x1000 equale 1,000,000; 1,000,000 1.0U0,O(iü equals 1,000,000,000,000 or billion. The bíx cipheVs are another tnethod of expressiog a millioii than in writing, and therefore, as no oue wonld gay tliat 2,nillions was anytbing lnt two thousainl ïnilliniis vi would necessarilv ca] 2,000,000,000 als,, two thcmsand millions and nol two billiiins, Ijecause as stated above, the 6 right-hand ciphere only nu an ïniiliiiiis, nuil the "2" and three foliowing ciphera are always recögnized as liiciiisiimls. Not to bore you or to take up too muc.h of your time, permit me to show by the annex ed table what i..lly ii is to cali i', 000,000,000 2 billiona : u- umt, 10- il. 100- hundrod. tliousand=unit thousand. 10,000-10 tlonsand=10's in thousand. 100.000-100 thousand=100's in thousmid. 1.000,000- l.dOO thousand=? viz. milllon units. 10.000.000-10 millions. 100.000,0110-100 mlllions. 1.000.000,000-1,000 million. io.ooo.ikhi.ho- ïo.ooo milllon. 100.000,000,000-100,000 millious. Xow, the next progression is ten hundred thousand or a million millions, uliicli, for brevity, conciseness and easy comprehension is called a billion, and is represpnted ly a million millions. Tluis 1,000,000 by ÜKW.OOO equals 1,000,000,000,000. If any one said that 8670 was six million Uve hundred and seventy moulii at unce pronounce him in error, vet practically the same is dono when 2,460,000,000 "is called 2 billion 4(10 niillinn. ]t is 2 thousand 1W millions or L'4 hundred and f() millions. I v billions, 4(0 íiiilliniis ;irc thus elrcssccl: 2,000,400,000,000. To make it, if possible, olear withaut doabt: -,- (HHt.000 representa two uiUIíod four hundred and sixty. Now yon can exprese tw millions l)y writing millions or by usintr ftrithmetical representationa ofsix ciphers, which latter wou Id eive as above, 2,000,460 (OOO.OOOJ or miílions- and miIlioQ8 multiplied y themselves become 1 illion.

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