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1,000,000,000 ("one billion" on the short scale; "one milliard" on the long scale; one thousand million) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. With a number, "billion" can be abbreviated as b, bilDefinition of BIL https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bil 2024-12-16 www.merriam-webster.com en or bn.The Economist Style Guide 2015 The Economist 11th https://books.google.com/books?id=enIZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70 figures 9781782830917 6.5 Abbreviating ‘million’ and ‘billion’ English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/styleguide_english_dgt_en.pdf 8th European Commission 3 November 2017 32
In standard form, it is written as 1 × 109. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G.
One billion years may be called an eon in astronomy or geology.
Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However, this is not common anymore, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades.https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion https://web.archive.org/web/20170112163426/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion dead January 12, 2017 How many is a billion? OxfordDictionaries.com 13 November 2017
The term milliard could also be used to refer to 1,000,000,000; whereas "milliard" is rarely used in English,https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=billion%2Cthousand+million%2Cmilliard&year_start=1808&year_end=2008&corpus=18&smoothing=3 billion,thousand million,milliard Google Ngram Viewer 13 November 2017 variations on this name often appear in other languages.
In the Indian numbering system, it is known as 100 crore or 1 arab.
1,000,000,000 is also the cube of 1000.
It is a common metric used in macroeconomics when describing national economies.
Sense of scale
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The facts below give a sense of how large 1,000,000,000 (109) is, according to current scientific evidence:
Time
109 seconds (1 gigasecond) equal 11,574 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds (approximately 31.7 years, or 31 years, 8 months, 8 days).
About 109 minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing and Christianity was emerging. (109 minutes is roughly 1,901 years.)
About 109 hours ago, modern human beings and their ancestors were living in the Stone Age (more precisely, the Middle Paleolithic). (109 hours is roughly 114,080 years.)
About 109 days ago, Australopithecus, an ape-like creature related to an ancestor of modern humans, roamed the African savannas. (109 days is roughly 2.738 million years.)
About 109 months ago, dinosaurs walked the Earth during the late Cretaceous. (109 months is roughly 83.3 million years.)
About 109 years—a gigaannus—ago, the first multicellular eukaryotes appeared on Earth.
About 109 decades ago, the thin disk of the Milky Way started to form. (109 decades is exactly 10 billion years.)
The universe is thought to be about 13.8 × 109 years old.http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cosmic_detectives Cosmic Detectives 2 April 2013 European Space Agency
Distance
109 inches is 15783 mi km, more than halfway around the world and thus sufficient to reach any point on the globe from any other point.
109 metres (called a gigametre) is almost three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
109 kilometres (called a terametre) is over six times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Area
A billion square inches could make a square about one half mile on a side.
A bolt of finely woven 1000-TC bed sheet linen with a billion thread crossings would have an area of 40 m2 sqyd, comparable to the floor area of a motel unit.
Volume
There are one billion cubic millimetres in a cubic metre, and a billion cubic metres in a cubic kilometre.
A billion grains of table salt or granulated sugar would occupy a volume of about 2.5 cuft.
A billion cubic inches would be a volume comparable to a large commercial building slightly larger than a typical supermarket.
Weight
Any object that weighs 1000000000 kg lbs in would weigh about as much as 5,525 empty Boeing 747-400s.
A cube of iron that weighs 1000000000 lbs kg in would be 38.62 m ft on each side.
Products
As of July 2016, Apple has sold one billion iPhones.https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/apple-announces-it-has-sold-one-billion-iphones-n618171 Apple Announces It Has Sold One Billion iPhones Panken Eli 27 July 2016 NBCNews.com 22 April 2023 This makes the iPhone one of the most successful product lines in history, surpassing the PlayStation and the Rubik's Cube.
As of January 2025, Facebook has 3.065 billion users.https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-posts-strong-profit-and-revenue-growth-1469650289 Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth Seethamaram Deep 27 July 2016 The Wall Street Journal 13 November 2017
Nature
A small mountain, slightly larger than Stone Mountain in Georgia, United States, would weigh (have a mass of) a billion tons.
There are billions of worker ants in the largest ant colony in the world,https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-world-became-a-giant-ant-colony How the World Became A Giant Ant Colony Burke Jeremy 16 June 2015 Atlas Obscura 13 November 2017 which covers almost 4,000 mi km of the Mediterranean coast.
In 1804, the world population was one billion.
Count
A is a cube; B consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube A, C consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube B; and D consists of 1000 cubes the size of cube C. Thus there are 1 million A-sized cubes in C; and 1,000,000,000 A-sized cubes in D.
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Selected 10-digit numbers (1,000,000,000–9,999,999,999)
1,000,000,000 to 1,999,999,999
1,000,000,007 : smallest prime number with 10 digits.A003617 Smallest n-digit prime
1,000,006,281 : smallest triangular number with 10 digits and the 44,721st triangular number.A068093 Smallest n-digit triangular number
1,000,014,129 = 316232, the smallest ten-digit square.A061432 - OEIS https://oeis.org/A061432 2025-06-30 oeis.org
1,026,753,849 = 320432, the smallest pandigital square in base 10.A225218 Square numbers containing all the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
1,069,863,695 : number of square (0,1)-matrices without zero rows and with exactly 9 entries equal to 1A122400 Number of square (0,1)-matrices without zero rows and with exactly n entries equal to 1
1,073,741,824 = 230.
1,073,742,724 : Leyland number using 2 and 30 (230 + 302)
1,073,792,449 : Leyland number using 4 and 15 (415 + 154)
1,093,104,961 : number of (unordered, unlabeled) rooted trimmed trees with 28 nodesA002955 Number of (unordered, unlabeled) rooted trimmed trees with n nodes
1,096,671,326 : number of uniform rooted trees with 26 nodesA317712 Number of uniform rooted trees with n nodes
1,104,891,746 : number of partially ordered set with 12 unlabeled elementsA000112 Number of partially ordered sets (posets) with n unlabeled elements
1,129,760,415 : 23rd Motzkin number.A001006 Motzkin numbers
1,134,903,170 : 45th Fibonacci number.A000045 Fibonacci numbers
1,162,268,326 : Leyland number using 3 and 19 (319 + 193)
1,163,962,800 : smallest superabundant number that is not highly compositeA166735 Superabundant numbers that are not highly composite
1,166,732,814 : number of signed trees with 17 nodesA000060 Number of signed trees with n nodes
1,167,812,894 : Leyland number using 2 and 30 (230 + 303)
1,173,741,824 : Leyland number using 8 and 10 (810 + 108)
1,221,074,418 : Leyland number using 5 and 13 (513 + 135)
1,311,738,121 : 25th Pell number.A000129 Pell numbers
1,382,958,545 : 15th Bell number.A000110 Bell or exponential numbers
1,392,251,012 : number of secondary structures of RNA molecules with 27 nucleotidesA004148 Generalized Catalan numbers
1,405,695,061 : Markov prime.A178444 Markov numbers that are prime
1,406,818,759 : 30th Wedderburn–Etherington number.A001190 Wedderburn-Etherington numbers
1,464,407,113 : number of series-reduced trees with 39 nodesA000014 Number of series-reduced trees with n nodes
1,533,776,805 : both pentagonal and triangular.A014979 Numbers that are both triangular and pentagonal
1,597,463,007 : Decimal representation of 0x5f3759df.
1,631,432,881 = 403912, square triangular number
1,673,196,525 : Least common multiple of the odd integers from 1 to 25A003418 Least common multiple of the first n natural numbers
1,677,922,740 : number of series-reduced planted trees with 36 nodesA001678 Number of series-reduced planted trees with n nodes
1,755,206,648 : coefficient of a ménage hit polynomialA000033 Coefficients of ménage hit polynomials
1,767,263,190 : The 19th Catalan number.A000108 Catalan numbers: (2n)!/(n!(n+1)!)
1,787,109,376 : 1-automorphic numberA003226 Automorphic numbers
1,808,141,741 : number of partitions of 280 into divisors of 280A018818 Number of partitions of n into divisors of n
1,808,676,326 : number of 38-bead necklaces (turning over is allowed) where complements are equivalentA000011 Number of n-bead necklaces (turning over is allowed) where complements are equivalent
1,836,311,903 : 46th Fibonacci number.
1,848,549,332 : number of partitions of 270 into divisors of 270
1,857,283,156 : number of 37-bead binary necklaces with beads of 2 colors where the colors may be swapped but turning over is not allowedA000013 Definition (1): Number of n-bead binary necklaces with beads of 2 colors where the colors may be swapped but turning over is not allowed
1,882,341,361 : The smallest prime whose reversal is a square triangular number (triangular of 57121).December 2025
1,921,525,212 : number of partitions of 264 into divisors of 264
1,934,502,740 : number of parallelogram polyominoes with 27 cells.A006958 Number of parallelogram polyominoes with n cells (also called staircase polyominoes, although that term is overused)
1,979,339,339 : largest right-truncatable prime in decimal, if 1 is considered to be a primeA012883 Numbers in which every prefix (in base 10) is 1 or a prime.
1,996,813,914 : Leyland number using 7 and 11 (711 + 117)
2,000,000,000 to 2,999,999,999
2,023,443,032 : number of trees with 28 unlabeled nodesA000055 Number of trees with n unlabeled nodes
2,038,074,743 : 100,000,000th prime numberDecember 2025
2,062,142,876 : number of centered hydrocarbons with 30 carbon atomsA000022 Number of centered hydrocarbons with n atoms
2,147,483,647 : 8th Mersenne primeA000668 Mersenne primes and 3rd double Mersenne prime.A263686 Smallest prime factor of double Mersenne numbers
2,147,483,648 = 231
2,147,484,609 : Leyland number using 2 and 31 (231 + 312)
2,176,782,336 = 612.
2,179,768,320 : Leyland number using 6 and 12 (612 + 126)
2,214,502,422 : 6th primary pseudoperfect number.A054377 Primary pseudoperfect numbers
2,276,423,485 : number of ways to partition {1,2,...,12} and then partition each cell (block) into subcells.A000258 Expansion of e.g.f. exp(exp(exp(x)-1)-1)
2,521,008,887 : 4th Mills' prime
2,695,730,992 : number of (unordered, unlabeled) rooted trimmed trees with 29 nodes
2,870,671,950 : number of free 20-ominoesA000105 Number of free polyominoes with n cells
2,873,403,980 : number of uniform rooted trees with 27 nodes
2,834,510,744 : number of nonequivalent dissections of a 22-gon into 19 polygons by non-intersecting diagonals up to rotationA220881 Number of nonequivalent dissections of an n-gon into n-3 polygons by nonintersecting diagonals up to rotation
2,971,215,073 : 11th Fibonacci prime (47th Fibonacci number) and a Markov prime.
3,000,000,000 to 3,999,999,999
3,166,815,962 : 26th Pell number.
3,192,727,797 : 24th Motzkin number.
3,323,236,238 : 31st Wedderburn–Etherington number.
3,405,691,582 = CAFEBABE16; used as a magic debug value in programming.
3,405,697,037 = CAFED00D16; used as a magic debug value in programming.
3,461,824,644 : number of secondary structures of RNA molecules with 28 nucleotides
3,486,792,401 : Leyland number using 3 and 20 (320 + 203)
3,492,564,909 = 12+34+56+78+910
3,520,581,954 : number of series-reduced planted trees with 37 nodes
3,524,337,980 : number of 39-bead necklaces (turning over is allowed) where complements are equivalent
3,616,828,364 : number of 38-bead binary necklaces with beads of 2 colors where the colors may be swapped but turning over is not allowed
3,663,002,302 : number of prime numbers having eleven digitsA006879 Number of primes with n digits.
3,697,909,056 : number of primitive polynomials of degree 37 over GF(2)A011260 Number of primitive polynomials of degree n over GF(2)
3,715,891,200 : double factorial of 20A006882 Double factorials
3,735,928,559 = DEADBEEF16; used as a magic debug value in programming.
3,735,929,054 = DEADC0DE16; used as a magic debug value in programming.
4,000,000,000 to 4,999,999,999
4,118,054,813 : number of primes under 1011A006880 Number of primes smaller than powers of ten)
4,294,967,291 : Largest prime 32-bit unsigned integer.A014234 Number of primes smaller than powers of two)
4,294,967,295 : Maximum 32-bit unsigned integer (FFFFFFFF16), perfect totient number, product of all known Fermat primes through .
4,294,967,296 = 655362 = 2564 = 168 = 416 = 232
4,294,967,297 : , the first composite Fermat number.
4,294,968,320 : Leyland number using 2 and 32 (232 + 322)
4,295,032,832 : Leyland number using 4 and 16 (416 + 164)
4,467,033,943 : number of parallelogram polyominoes with 28 cells.
4,486,784,401 : Leyland number using 9 and 10 (910 + 109)
4,807,526,976 : 48th Fibonacci number.
4,822,382,628 : number of primitive polynomials of degree 38 over GF(2)
5,000,000,000 to 5,999,999,999
5,345,531,935 : number of centered hydrocarbons with 31 carbon atoms
5,354,228,880 : Least common multiple of the integers from 1 to 24
5,391,411,025 : smallest odd abundant number not divisible by 3A115414 Odd abundant numbers not divisible by 3.
5,469,566,585 : number of trees with 29 unlabeled nodes
5,702,046,382 : number of signed trees with 18 nodes
5,784,634,181 : 13th alternating factorial.A005165 Alternating factorials
6,000,000,000 to 6,999,999,999
6,104,053,449 : Leyland number using 5 and 14 (514 + 145)
6,210,001,000 : only self-descriptive number in base 10.
6,227,020,800 = 13!
6,469,693,230 : tenth primorial
6,564,120,420 : The 20th Catalan number.
6,659,914,175 : number of unordered unlabeled rooted trimmed trees with 30 nodes
6,872,485,104 : number of 40-bead necklaces (turning over is allowed) where complements are equivalent
6,983,776,800 : 15th colossally abundant number,A004490 Colossally abundant numbers 15th superior highly composite number,A002201 Superior highly composite numbers and the largest number to be both.December 2025
7,000,000,000 to 7,999,999,999
7,048,151,672 : number of 39-bead binary necklaces with beads of 2 colors where the colors may be swapped but turning over is not allowed
7,371,308,068 : number of partitions of 252 into divisors of 252
7,391,026,522 : number of planar partitions of 49A000219 Number of planar partitions (or plane partitions) of n
7,395,528,814 : number of series-reduced planted trees with 38 nodes
7,544,428,973 : number of uniform rooted trees with 28 nodes
7,645,370,045 : 27th Pell number.
7,778,742,049 : 49th Fibonacci number.
7,862,958,391 : 32nd Wedderburn–Etherington number.
8,000,000,000 to 8,999,999,999
8,212,890,625 : 1-automorphic number
8,549,176,320 : pandigital number with the digits arranged in alphabetical order by English name
8,589,866,963 : number of subsets of {1,2,...,33} with relatively prime elementsA085945 Number of subsets of {1,2,...,n} with relatively prime elements
8,589,869,056 : 6th perfect number.A000396 Perfect numbers
8,589,934,592 = 20483 = 811 = 233
8,589,935,681 : Leyland primeA094133 Leyland prime numbers using 2 and 33 (233 + 332)
8,622,571,758 : number of secondary structures of RNA molecules with 29 nucleotides
8,804,293,473 : Leyland number using 8 and 11 (811 + 118)
9,000,000,000 to 9,999,999,999
9,043,402,501 : 25th Motzkin number.
9,814,072,356 = 990662, the largest pandigital square,December 2025 largest pandigital pure power.December 2025
9,876,543,210 : largest pandigital number.
9,999,800,001 = 999992, the largest ten-digit square.
9,999,999,967 : greatest prime number with 10 digitshttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Greatest+prime+number+with+10+digits Greatest prime number with 10 digits Wolfram Alpha 13 November 2017
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