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The total amount they pledged, around $45 billion in Facebook shares at current valuation, exceeds the endowments of the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations combined. If Zuckerberg gives away the upper limit of what he announced in December, $1 billion per year for the next three years, he will likely become the world’s second-largest ...
A bit is an antiquated term equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 cents, after the Spanish 8-Real "piece of eight" coin on which the U.S. dollar was initially based. So "two bits" is twenty-five cents; similarly, "four bits" is fifty cents. More rare are "six bits" (75 cents) and "eight bits" meaning a dollar.
A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion (100,000,000,000) or more units of a given currency, generally of major world currencies such as the United States dollar, euro or pound sterling. [1] The following is a list of everyone who has ever been a centibillionaire.
[10] [11] China implemented retaliatory tariffs equivalent to the $34 billion tariff imposed on it by the U.S. [12] In July 2018, the Trump administration announced it would use a Great Depression-era program, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), to pay farmers up to $12 billion, increasing the aid to $28 billion in May 2019. [13]
How much is 45.6 billion won in USD? In December 2024, at the time of writing this article, the 45.6 billion won prize pot equated to roughly $31.5 million. Notably, the Korean won is at a 15-year ...
The Coinage Act of 1792 describes milles and other subdivisions of the dollar: That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, dismes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and milles or thousandths, a disme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mille the thousandth part of a ...
NASA's budget as percentage of federal total, from 1958 to 2017. NASA's budget for financial year (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion. [1] It represents 0.48% of the $4.7 trillion the United States plans to spend in the fiscal year. [2] Since its inception the United States has spent nearly US$650 billion (in nominal dollars) on NASA.
In 1998, economic historian J. Bradford DeLong estimated the total GWP in 1990 U.S. dollars for the main years between one million years BCE and 2000 CE (shown in the table below). [ 6 ] Estimates from 2000 onwards are based on world GDP, PPP estimates in 2021 constant international dollars from the World Bank and subsequently converted to 1990 ...