Billion

Billion may refer to:

In numbers:

  • Long and short scales
    • 1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 109, in the short scale
    • 1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 1012, in the long scale

In other usage:

  • Billon (alloy), alloy of precious metal
  • Billion (company), a modem manufacturer
  • Golden billion, a Russian term for the wealthy people of the developed world
  • Jack Billion (born 1939), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota
  • Mr. Billion, 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
  • Billion laughs, XML parser vulnerability

Other articles related to "billion":

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Tire - Manufacturing
... Over one billion tires are manufactured annually, making the tire industry a major consumer of natural rubber ... In 2015 alone, 1.72 billion tires are expected to be sold globally ... In 2004, $80 billion of tires were sold worldwide, in 2010 it was $140 billion ...
Zain - Financial Highlights
20 September 2008, Zain Group announced the completion of its capital increase raising US$4.49 billion (KWD1.2 billion) with 29% of all shareholders subscribing ... The number of subscribed shares exceeded 1.4 billion, bringing the total number of Zain shares to 4.28 billion with total shareholders’ equity reaching US$6.42 billion ...
Three Gorges Dam - Economics
... The government estimated that the Three Gorges Dam project would cost 180 billion yuan (US$22.5 billion) ... By the end of 2008, spending had reached 148.365 billion yuan, among which 64.613 billion yuan was spent on construction, 68.557 billion yuan on relocating affected residents, and 15.195 ... has generated 1,000 terawatt-hours (3,600 PJ) of electricity, yielding 250 billion yuan ...
Arcade Game - List of Highest-grossing Arcade Video Games - Best-selling Arcade Video Game Franchises
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Famous quotes containing the word billion:

    “Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
    —John Lukacs (b. 1924)

    “Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
    Shatters into a billion fragments
    Of quiet shadows
    At the blaring jazz
    Of a morning sun.”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    “... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].”
    —Sara Bard Field (1882–1974)