Reply #12: $36,100,000,000.00 [View All]

[TexasLawyer]

"The company's net income jumped to $36.1 billion last year."

The number written out is $36,100,000,000.00. OOOh, that's a lot of lobbyists!

How much is a billion?

A billion is a thousand million. That would be written

1,000,000,000

To make a book with a billion dollar signs, printed 1000 per page as before, our book would be 1,000,000 pages long, and would be 2,000,000 inches thick! There are 12 inches in a foot, and 5,280 feet in a mile, so dividing 2,000,000 by 12 to convert the inches to feet, and then dividing that by 5,280 to convert the feet to miles, our book would be 166 feet 8 inches thick!

http://www.punahou.edu/acad/sanders/geometrypages/GP10BillionEtc.html