Billion

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Billion may refer to:

In numbers:

• Long and short scales
  • 1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 10, in the short scale
  • 1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 10, in the long scale

In other usage:

• Billon (alloy), alloy of precious metal
• Billion (company), a modem manufacturer
• Golden billion, a Russian term for the wealthy people of the developed world
• Jack Billion (born 1939), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota
• Mr. Billion, 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
• Billion laughs, XML parser vulnerability

Cardinal number

billion

1. A long scale billion, 10; a short scale trillion.

Related terms

• trillion, coined at same time

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