Submitted by Dallas Kachan on October 27, 2006 - 9:20am.
We were going to write "one billion" above instead of $1,000bn, until we remembered that a billion means different things different places.
In the U.S., one billion is 1,000,000,000, and a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. So one trillion is one thousand times one billion. In the British system, one billion is 1,000,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, so one trillion is one million times one billion.
$1,000bn is HOW much?
We were going to write "one billion" above instead of $1,000bn, until we remembered that a billion means different things different places.
In the U.S., one billion is 1,000,000,000, and a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. So one trillion is one thousand times one billion. In the British system, one billion is 1,000,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, so one trillion is one million times one billion.
Either way, that's a lotta Halloween candy.