OK I drafted up a large post ages ago about this, but it was deleted. Since this is my thousandth post I want to redo it.
OK the universe is about 13 billion years old.
A Billion = million x million
or douse it? it should logically
every time we square a number we need to invent a new name so
10^2 Ten
=100 Hundred
100^2
=1000 Thousand
1000^2
=1000000 Million
1000000^2
=1000000000000 billion <<<<<<<<<<< so the universe is 13000000000000 years old I've believed that my whole life until I recently discovered a shocking truth 1 billion = a thousand million so the universe is only 1300000000000 years old.
Or is it? I dunno, but why did the Americans make a billion only a thousand million. Is it so they could be billionaires. Is a trillion 100000000000000000000000 (10^24 normal billion^2 [billion^2) or is it a million billion. or is it a thousand million^2 or what? :-? Help Me!!