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Billion

1. One thousand million in the short scale numbering system.

2. One million million in the long scale number system. This number is known, perhaps more commonly, as one trillion.

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Then one-thousandth of a millimetre is one thousandth of one-millionth, or one billionth of a kilometre.

How small is a billionth? John Gough presents some practical approaches for conceptualising very small numbers

This is the world of nano - for nanometer, or billionth of a meter - instead of today's world of micro, for micrometer, or millionth of a meter.

IN SPEED OF LIGHT; BRIGHT IDEA: RESEARCHERS LOOK TO LASERS FOR FASTER, CHEAPER PCS

Unfortunately, thermometers that can measure temperatures of a few billionths of a degree rely on physics that doesn't apply at these extremely low temperatures.

Super cool atom thermometer developed by physicists

The anti-hydrogen atoms created in the experiment were moving at nearly the speed of light and survived only some 40 billionths of a second before colliding with atoms of ordinary matter and annihilating themselves.

PHYSICISTS PRODUCE FIRST COMPLETE ATOMS OF ANTIMATTER

The team studied less than 2 billionths of a gram of fermium painstakingly produced by Oak Ridge (Tenn.

Taking a shine to number 100. (Physics)

Additionally, Fab 24 is Intel's third fab to manufacture semiconductors with circuitry of 90 nm (90 billionths of a meter) across.

Intel Begins 300 mm Production at Newest Wafer Fabrication Facility in Ireland

These transistors, measuring ten nanometers, or ten billionths of a meter in length (gate), are six times smaller than the smallest transistors currently in production.

AMD Announces Technology to Enable Ten-fold Performance Leap in Future Transistors

It ejects a photon for at least a third of the electrons, timed to a precision of tens of billionths of a second.