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Metric regions commonly use the tonne of oil equivalent (toe), or more often million toe (Mtoe). Since this is a measurement of mass, any conversion to barrels of oil equivalent depends on the density of the oil in question, as well as the energy content. Typically 1 tonne of oil has a volume of 1.08 to 1.19 cubic metres (6.8 to 7.5 bbl).
The word 'billion' is now used internationally to mean 1,000 million and it would be confusing if British Ministers were to use it in any other sense. I accept that it could still be interpreted in this country as 1 million million and I shall ask my colleagues to ensure that, if they do use it, there should be no ambiguity as to its meaning." [5]
The root mil in million does not refer to the numeral, 1. The word, million, derives from the Old French, milion, from the earlier Old Italian, milione, an intensification of the Latin word, mille, a thousand. That is, a million is a big thousand, much as a great gross is a dozen gross or 12 × 144 = 1728. [7]
Some countries have had events of inflation of 1 million percent or more in a single month, which usually results in the rapid abandonment of the currency. For example, in November 2008 the monthly inflation rate of the Zimbabwean dollar reached 79.6 billion percent (470% per day); the approximate value with three significant figures would be 7 ...
Genocide/Famine: 55 million is an estimated upper bound for the death toll of the Great Chinese Famine. Literature: Wikipedia contains a total of around 64 million articles in 354 languages as of February 2025. War: 70 to 85 million casualties estimated as a result of World War II. Mathematics: 73,939,133 is the largest right-truncatable prime.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. See also: Orders of magnitude (numbers) and Long and short scales Natural number 1000000000 List of numbers Integers ← 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 Cardinal One billion (short scale) One thousand million, or one milliard (long scale) Ordinal One billionth (short ...
For the $1.1 billion jackpot, you’d get 30 average annual payments of $36.6 million. But after federal taxes — amounting to more than $13 million — the net total per year would be around $23 ...