1,000,000,000

1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard,[1] long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. One billion can also be written as b or bn.[2][3]

1000000000
CardinalOne billion (short scale)
One thousand million, or one milliard (long scale)
OrdinalOne billionth (short scale)
Factorization29 · 59
Greek numeral
Roman numeralM
Binary1110111001101011001010000000002
Ternary21202002000210100013
Octal73465450008
Duodecimal23AA9385412
Hexadecimal3B9ACA0016

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 no longer common, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades.[4]

The term milliard can also be used to refer to 1,000,000,000; whereas "milliard" is rarely used in English,[5] variations on this name often appear in other languages.

In the South Asian numbering system, it is known as 100 crore or 1 arab.

Visualization of powers of ten from one to 1 billion

Sense of scale

The facts below give a sense of how large 1,000,000,000 (109) is in the context of time 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 yearsa gigaannusago, the first multicellular eukaryotes appeared on Earth.
  • About 109 decades ago, galaxies began to appear in the early Universe which was then 3.799 billion years old. (109 decades is exactly 10 billion years.)
  • The universe is thought to be about 13.8 × 109 years old.[6]

Distance

  • 109 inches is 15,783 miles (25,400 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 would be 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 square metres (48 sq yd), comparable to the floor area of a motel unit.

Volume

  • There are a 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 cubic feet (0.071 m3).
  • 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 one billion kilograms (2.2×109 lb) would weigh about as much as 5,525 empty Boeing 747-400s.
  • A cube of iron that weighs one billion pounds (450,000,000 kg) would be 38.62 metres (126.7 ft) on each side.

Products

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,[9] which covers almost 4,000 miles (6,400 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.

Selected 10-digit numbers (1,000,000,001–9,999,999,999)

1,000,000,001 to 1,999,999,999

2,000,000,000 to 2,999,999,999

  • 2,038,074,743 – 100,000,000th prime number
  • 2,147,483,647 – 8th Mersenne prime and the largest signed 32-bit integer.
  • 2,147,483,648 – 231
  • 2,176,782,336 – 612
  • 2,214,502,422 – 6th primary pseudoperfect number.[20]
  • 2,357,947,691 – 119
  • 2,562,890,625 – 158
  • 2,971,215,073 – 11th Fibonacci prime (47th Fibonacci number).

3,000,000,000 to 3,999,999,999

  • 3,166,815,962 – 26th Pell number.[14]
  • 3,192,727,797 – 24th Motzkin number.[13]
  • 3,323,236,238 – 31st Wedderburn–Etherington number.[16]
  • 3,405,691,582 – hexadecimal CAFEBABE; used as a placeholder in programming.
  • 3,405,697,037 – hexadecimal CAFED00D; used as a placeholder in programming.
  • 3,486,784,401 – 320
  • 3,735,928,559 – hexadecimal DEADBEEF; used as a placeholder in programming.
  • 3,735,929,054 – hexadecimal DEADC0DE; used as a placeholder in programming.

4,000,000,000 to 4,999,999,999

  • 4,294,836,223 – 16th Carol number.[11]
  • 4,294,967,291 – Largest prime 32-bit unsigned integer.
  • 4,294,967,295 – Maximum 32-bit unsigned integer (FFFFFFFF16), perfect totient number, product of the five prime Fermat numbers through .
  • 4,294,967,296 – 232
  • 4,294,967,297, the first composite Fermat number.
  • 4,295,098,367 – 15th Kynea number.[12]
  • 4,807,526,976 – 48th Fibonacci number.

5,000,000,000 to 5,999,999,999

  • 5,159,780,352 – 129
  • 5,354,228,880 – superior highly composite number, smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 24
  • 5,784,634,181 – 13th alternating factorial.[21]

6,000,000,000 to 6,999,999,999

7,000,000,000 to 7,999,999,999

  • 7,645,370,045 – 27th Pell number.[14]
  • 7,778,742,049 – 49th Fibonacci number.
  • 7,862,958,391 – 32nd Wedderburn–Etherington number.[16]

8,000,000,000 to 8,999,999,999

9,000,000,000 to 9,999,999,999

  • 9,043,402,501 – 25th Motzkin number.[13]
  • 9,814,072,356 – largest square pandigital number, largest pandigital pure power.
  • 9,876,543,210 – largest number without redundant digits.
  • 9,999,999,967 – greatest prime number with 10 digits[25]

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