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How big is a billion? - Numberphile

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B1

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5/10

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Legendas (233 segmentos)

00:00

JAMES GRIME: As an antipathian,

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how big is a billion?

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TONY PADILLA: No, I'm not even going to go there, man.

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JAMES GRIME: Well, what were you taught?

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What were you taught at school?

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TONY PADILLA: OK.

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So there's basically two ways of interpreting

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what a billion is.

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There is the correct English way.

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And there's the incorrect American way.

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I think I was taught a billion is 1,000 million.

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JAMES GRIME: Right, exactly.

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Now, that's what I was taught at school as well.

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Although in Britain the older generation would say a billion

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is not 1,000 million.

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They would say it was a million million.

00:33

TONY PADILLA: There's a beautiful mathematical logic

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to the old way of doing and it, which I just don't see in

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the new way.

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JAMES GRIME: If we ask our viewers, I reckon about half

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of them will answer a billion has nine zeroes.

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That's 1,000 million.

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And I reckon the rest of them will say a billion has 12

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zeroes, which is a million million.

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And it depends on how old you are and where in

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the world you live.

01:02

Let's be honest.

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Real mathematicians and real scientists, if they've got a

01:06

large number, they're not really going to use billions

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and trillions.

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They actually use standard form.

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So if I want to say something with 27 zeroes, you'd write

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something like this.

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You'd be 5 times 10 to the 27th.

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But if you're reading articles in the newspapers, on BBC

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website, they're going to use words like

01:32

billions and trillions.

01:33

Now, there is dispute.

01:35

There are two systems.

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There's the short system and the long system.

01:40

So let's have a look at the short system first.

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So the short system is based on powers of 1,000.

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Let's start off with the number 1.

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Now, it is a power of 1,000.

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It's 1,000 to the power 0, So that's 1.

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What's the next step up?

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Well, you get 1,000, don't you?

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