"Billion" acts as a countable noun when referring to a specific quantity (e.g., "two billion dollars," without an 's'), but it can function like an uncountable concept (mass noun) when used generally or non-specifically (e.g., "billions of dollars," "lost in the billions"), often requiring "of" and an 's' for the plural. It's a number word that behaves differently depending on context, similar to "million" or "dozen".
Word forms: billions language note: The plural form is billion after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as `several' or `a few. ' A billion is a thousand million. The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars.
You say a, one, two, several, etc. billion without a final “s” on “billion.”Billions (of…) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it. Always use a plural verb with billion or billions, except when a number or an amount of money is mentionedTwo billion (people) worldwide are expected to watch the game.
"millions" is the plural of "million". "Plural" means more than one. So when you have 2M, you can refer to it as "millions," but if you have 1,999,999, you cannot.
2 billion can be written in number form as 2,000,000,000.
Like zillion and jillion, gazillion is a made-up word meaning "a whole bunch" that's modeled after actual numbers such as million and billion.
A "milliard" was what we now call a "billion," or a thousand million.
Quintillion is the denomination used for large numbers. A quintillion is the number name for 10 raised to the power of 18, that is, one followed by 18 zeros. In the International numeral system, a quintillion has 6 groups of zeros in 3, that is, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
2 million is writtten as 2,000,000.
One crore is equal to 1,00,00,000 and one million is equal to 1,000,000. Since 1 Crore equals 1,00,00,000 and 1 Million equals 1,000,000, the number of zeros in a Million is 6, while the number of zeros in a Crore is 7. As a result, 1 crore equals 10 million. As a result, 1 crore = 10 millions.
The US billion has become universally used in English-speaking countries. In 1974, British government statistics adopted the US billion. The UK press conforms.
The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed billionaire in 1916.
If you're talking about an amount of money then it requires a singular verb, but if you're simply referencing the dollars themselves, it would be plural. Example: One hundred dollars is a lot of money. Dollars are used as currency in the United States.
If B is typically used instead of G, the reason is obvious: even if you don't know anything, you might guess that B means “billion.” G, on the other hand, is a slangy shorthand for “grand,” as in a thousand dollars, which might disqualify it as an abbreviation for billions in financial contexts.
Rather than use the barred M, however, accounting went with MM as an abbreviation for a million. For example, 1MM equals 1 million, $34MM equals $34 million and so on.
Billion used to mean 1,000,000m when I was at school and 1,000m was a milliard (the term comes from German). The French use billion for 1,000m and the Americans adopted that usage after Independence.
Which can also be written as 1000,000 that is thousand thousands according to the international number system. Or, in the Indian System as 10,00,000 which is Ten hundred thoudred thousand. Therefore we conclude that 1 million as per the International system is the same as Ten hundred thousand as per the Indian system.
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand in numerals is written as 250000.
200000 in words is written as Two Hundred Thousand.
A unit of quantity equal to 1051 (1 followed by 51 zeros).
It's rather rare but vigintillion is real enough, though its meaning has been disputed. Some old references explain it as 1 followed by 120 zeros (10120) but modern ones as 1 followed by a mere 63 zeros (1063).
Using this algorithm with hand computations on paper, Lucas showed in 1876 that the 39-digit number (2127 – 1) equals 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727, and that value is prime. Also known as M127, this number remains the largest prime verified by hand computations.
There is no biggest, last number … except infinity. Except infinity isn't a number.
You would return, with no money left, in three years. If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.
By most traditional measures, having a net worth of $1 million should put someone firmly in the “wealthy” category. Yet a growing number of millionaires don't see it that way.