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billion

Cardinal number represented by a 1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000 or 109), equivalent to a thousand million.
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To comprehend the meaning of these figures, it is necessary to observe that a quintillion is to a billion as a billion is to unity; in other words, there are as many billions in a quintillion as there are units in a billion.
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