What comes after a billion? Don’t be a wise ass and answer a billion and one.
Is it a trillion? OK then…
| Number of zeros | U.S. & scientific community | Other countries |
| 3 | thousand | thousand |
| 6 | million | million |
| 9 | billion | 1000 million (1 milliard) |
| 12 | trillion | billion |
| 15 | quadrillion | 1000 billion |
| 18 | quintillion | trillion |
| 21 | sextillion | 1000 trillion |
| 24 | septillion | quadrillion |
| 27 | octillion | 1000 quadrillion |
http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm
The numbers are staggering.
In a further effort to enhance our economy the LA Times is reporting http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood2-2008oct02,0,6979043.story that the $700 billion financial bailout package includes $470 million worth of tax breaks over the next 10 years for movie and TV employers shooting here in the United States. Guess it makes it okay since the provisions were already part of a broad tax extension bill approved earlier by the U.S. Senate and then folded into the revised bailout legislation that passed Wednesday. WTF?
I was under the impression that $700 Billion was going into securities markets and relief. Who knew it was going to the movie industry? I guess when times are tough, people don’t go to the movies so the industry must surely be in a quandary- but as much as the securities industry to have a part of this bill. SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Where else is the money going to be frivolously hidden in this bill? Want to bet some one knows? Don’t they.
Ahrcanum.
Ahrcanum. Latin origin Arcanus. Mysterious, having special knowledge, information accessible or possesed only by the initiate. Secrets revealed.
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