MetaFilter posts tagged with billion

Some Big Numbers

Monkey0nCrack — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:57:18 -0800

Millions and Millions (Last pixel sold on Sun, 1 Jan 2006) and Millions _(previously) and millions _(previously) and Billions and Billions. How many millions How many Billions? Trillion _(previously). and remember when Google was just a huge number? A Bajillion? And of course a Brazillian.

One Billion Page Views

jonson — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:43:21 -0800

AJ Needs 650,000 more page views, and only you can help.

One Billion Mazes

ajbattrick — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:21:19 -0800

One Billion Mazes This site contains one billion mazes in high-quality printable PDF format. You may view, print and solve these mazes... and yes, there are exactly one billion mazes!

maura — Mon, 09 Jul 2001 04:12:43 -0800

Bye bye Webvan. "Although Webvan would be just one of hundreds of dot-com companies to go out of business, its story is somewhat unique. Webvan was one of the most well funded of all the dot-com companies, having raised, and burned through, around $1 billion in financing."

brian — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:54:48 -0800

Who wants to be a...Grab.com is giving away $1 Billion Grab.com, an email marketing company announced it would give $1 Billion to the player who selects the same series of seven numbers between one and 77 that Grab.com picks at random on Dec. 28.

As the article points out, the odds of any one individual claiming the $1 billion prize are a subatomic 1 in 2,404,808,340. Compared to the chance that Berkshire Hathaway will have to cough up $1 billion this year to cover one of its natural disaster insurance policies which is something like 1 in 100.