Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 02, 2020

999 million.

A billion is a thousand million. So, the answer is 999 million.

Unless you are British. A billion is a million million there.

A million is 10⁶. Billion, though, depends on where you are in the world. Here in the US, it’s 10⁹ but in the UK, it’s 10¹².

http://www.eyeful-tower.com/muse/billion.htm

The difference between a million and a billion is one day?

I don’t get it.

When I was growing up, a million was a metaphor for something larger than I could easily quantify. A billion was just a way to underline it.

A billion here a billion there……. pretty soon you’re talking real money!

I long for the days when you could go months, years even, without hearing the word TRILLION.

Is that a US billion (thousand million) or a European billion (million million)?

When talking money, I always think per head. For US money, a billion is like $3 / person. Hey, what’s a billion if it does some good … coffee change.

Of course, a trillion becomes $3K and 20 trillion becomes more like $240,000 for a family of four … lot of coffee.

Everyone knows the answer is a gazillion.

We more commonly say 24 hours.

The difference is zero.

“525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear…”

I would love to have either one of them . And pay the tax of course .

It’s too damn much to be in debt for.

How big of a pile is $1,000,000? See https://www.groovewallet.com/what-a-billion-dollars-looks-like/

Hmmm… usually when I get stuck in “Frazz,” it’s in the last panel. Here, I’m stuck at panel 3. A billion is a thousand million (in the USA. anyway). How does that relate to a second? (and there must be a hidden meaning here, from Caulfield’s response). What am I missing?

The point isn’t whether people know that a billion is a 1000 times more than a million – the point is that if Americans are eating a billion hamburgers a month, that means that every American is eating something like 3 – 4 hamburgers a month, where as if they are eating a million hamburgers a month, that means that only 3 in 1000 Americans are eating a hamburger a month. One might be a case for discussions about health choices for people – the other is barely noise.

Confused by this. Is Caulfield implying that “most people” don’t know the difference between a million and a billion? I mean, that’s fairly rudimentary, isn’t it? Or is this more of a “Haha, my eight year old genius knows everything, compared to the ‘most people’ who are dumber than a bag of hammers?”

A billion is 999,000,000 more than a million

Simplest to understand Seconds;

1,000 seconds = A little more than 16 minutes from now

100,000 seconds = A little less than 28 hrs from now

1,000,000 (Million)seconds = About 11½ days from now

1,000,000,000 (Billion) seconds = A little less than 32 years from now

1,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) seconds = About 317 centuries from now.

Yes 1000x