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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"204), ' What numbers make a billion?' I would offer the following remarks : The
... How can it, then.be in any sense a billion' If it be any kind of a bis, ..."
2. Twenty-five Years in the West by Erasmus Manford (1885)
"A billion of years is only one second of eternity, and so would be only one ...
Try to count a billion — 1000000000—which is a million times a million. ..."
3. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"In Great Britain a billion is reckoned as a million millions. ... Here is one of
the simplest forms in which explanation has been put: What is a billion? ..."
4. Scrapbook (1906)
"In the following attempt to make the meaning of a billion more vivid ... What is
a billion, or, rather, what conception can we form of such a quantity? ..."
5. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"What does a billion mean? In Great Britain and usually in the northern ...
"A billion does not strike the average mind as a very great number in this day of ..."
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