North America vs. Europe Billion Date: July 2007 We are having a
discussion about how many zeros are in a billion. We have
Googled this topic, and we are getting different information. My
Hispanic employees are stating that there are 12 zeros in a
billion. When we Googled a billion in Spanish, they are correct.
When we Google a billion in English I am correct in stating that
there are 9 zeros. In the US there are one thousand millions in
a billion.... ten to the 9. The European billion is a million
millions.... ten to the 12. One of the many ways that the world
is not one... are you familiar with the US gallon and the
Imperial (British) gallon? They, too, are different. Again, the
US measure is smaller. There are 9 zeros in 1 billion:
1,000,000,000. 12 zeros is 1 trillion. A billion is
1,000,000,000 which has 9 zeros. A thousand has 3 zeros, a
million has 6 zeros, and a trillion has 12. In Spanish the word
for trillion is billon (with an accent over the o, billion is
mil millones) so maybe you can split lunch