How Big is a Billion?
A billion is a thousand million? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
A billion is a thousand million? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
During my first semester of grad school I worked as a teaching assistant for a freshman physics lab, where I occasionally encountered statements like “the mass of the ball was ten.”
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