Billion
Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions:
* 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of ...
is a name for a large number. It may refer specifically to:
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1,000,000,000
1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or one milliard, one yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bil or bn.
In sta ...
(, one thousand million), the short scale definition
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1,000,000,000,000
This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantities and probabilities. Each number is given a name in the short scale, which is used in English-speaking countries, as well as a ...
(, one million million), the long scale definition
Billion may also refer to:
Film and TV
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''Billions'' (TV series), a Showtime series
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''Billions'' (film), a 1920 silent comedy
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Mr. Billion'', a 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
Music
* "Billion", a song by Cardiacs from ''
Sing to God
''Sing to God'' is the fourth studio album by English rock band Cardiacs. Their first album with drummer Bob Leith and their second as a four-piece, it was recorded throughout 1995, breaking a hiatus by the band that had lasted since the band ...
'', 1996
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"Billions" (song), a song by Caroline Polachek from ''Desire, I Want to Turn Into You'', 2023
* "Billions", a song by Russell Dickerson from ''
Yours'', 2017
Other
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Billion (company)
Billion Electric Co. Ltd. ( Taiex: #3027), based in Taiwan, is an electronics company founded in 1973.
Their range of ADSL modem/ routers were introduced into Australia in 2002. Since then, features have been added including 4 port switches, wire ...
, a Taiwanese modem manufacturer
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Jack Billion
John "Jack" Joseph Billion (March 4, 1939 – February 25, 2023) was an American politician and physician who was the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for Governor of South Dakota and served as a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives ...
(1939–2023), American politician
See also
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two power of 10, powers of ten number naming systems that are consistent with each other for smaller order of magnitude, numbers, but are contradictory for larger numbers.
Other numbering systems, particularly ...
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Names of large numbers
Depending on context (e.g. language, culture, region), some large numbers have names that allow for describing large quantities in a textual form; not mathematical. For very large values, the text is generally shorter than a decimal numeric repre ...
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Billion laughs
In computer security, a billion laughs attack is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents.
It is also referred to as an XML bomb or as an exponential entity expansion attack.
Details
The example attac ...
, an XML parser vulnerability
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Golden billion
The Golden Billion () is a conspiracy theory that a cabal of global elites are pulling strings to amass wealth for the world's richest billion people at the expense of the rest of humanity. It is a popular term in the Russian-speaking world.
The ...
, a Russian term for the wealthy people of the developed world
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Billionaire (disambiguation)
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Billon (disambiguation)
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BN (disambiguation)
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