I just read the news article about Hubpages inclusion in the Lead411s top technology 200 and saw the following line:
"Applicants were required to be privately held, U.S. based companies with at least $500,000 million in revenue"
WOW - that's $500 Billion - didn't realize HP was doing that well! Methinks it may be a typo?!
Even though HP now takes in all the earnings from HPads and re-distributes I don't think that even if you call that revenue it would be that much.
I think someone stuttered on the zero key.
True dat! - or maybe they left out a hyphen between a "0" and the "m"?
Yeah, it probably is a typo.
Aside from the article you read, but your own typo counts as one that is even worse.
$500,000 million isn't $500 Billion?
1000 million is now a Billion.
When I were a young lad in England 1 Billion was 1,000,000,000,000 but alas it is no more!
http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/howmanybillion
Ooooh, Simey, thank you so much! I asked about this, here:
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/77320#post1672852
with no response.
If you have any answers for the unanswered questions in that thread (and I understand that they would now be obsolete, according to the link you posted), I would love to know - i.e., I would love to know what those names were.
This pisses me off majorly.
Why the hell should I have to adopt US conventions when British English is older by many centuries!
As from now, I will not use the term billion ever again, as a protest!
Drachmas, shekels, roubles, sesterces...
whatever...
I don't care about the currency, but I want billion to retain its correct meaning!
Should be in southern currency - pigs, chickens, and moonshine.
There is a more lengthy historical explanation in SimeyC's two other links. A lot of what they described surprised me (the French connection, for example).
Good for you
Honestly Im broke ,no matter whose currency is up there.
LOL well as a British man I quite like the fact that I'm closer to being a US billionaire rather than a British billionaire!
Sadly it's the international community that decides rather than the Brits or US! As an example - Aluminium is the standard word world wide in Engineering, even though the US says Aluminum - so the US doesn't always get their way!
I don't understand what you are saying here, Cags. (Sorry!) Are you going by the old British system or the current one/American one?
The problem is that I don't think there is anything official anywhere - apparently there was a change many years ago, but I still used the British Billion when I first came to the US!
Here's an interesting discussion though:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52579.html
and here's one explaining all the terms:
http://eyeful-tower.com/muse/billion.htm
Thanks, SimeyC! I'm heading over now to read both of these.
Last year their profit was about 10 million according to the San Fran business times. Maybe that is what they have made in total since opening?
A worthy subpage.
http://www.lead411.com/company_HubPages … 84265.html
According to information in that link, the average salary of HP staff is $78,220.
I wouldn't mind a salary like that! I get perhaps 60% for working 18+ hour days most days including weekends.
The American method is the American method, not the "current" one. But therein lies the explanation. You need three more zeros to be a British Billionaire.
The American is more 'accepted' though - when you hear that someone earned a Billion pounds it's generally the American Billion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13321462
Let me rephrase then:
"Are you going by the old [or "used to be," as denoted in the article SimeyC linked] British system or the current [British] one ["now" or "nowadays," according to the Oxford Dictionaries article SimeyC linked], i.e. the American one?"
Fascinating discussions! Thanks so much for the links - I've bookmarked them both.
I was familiar with the term milliard from the time I spent in Germany, but I had not heard of billiard (except in connection with the game), trilliard, etc.
And I was especially interested to see that France did not adopt the "échelle longue" until 1948.
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