Billion

Billion may refer to:

In numbers:

• Long and short scales
  • 1,000,000,000, one thousand million, 10⁹, in the short scale
  • 1,000,000,000,000, one million million, 10¹², in the long scale

In other usage:

• Billon (alloy), alloy of precious metal
• Billion (company), a modem manufacturer
• Golden billion, a Russian term for the wealthy people of the developed world
• Jack Billion (born 1939), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota
• Mr. Billion, 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
• Billion laughs, XML parser vulnerability

See also

• Bylliones, Illyrian tribe which founded Byllis
• Milliard, in some countries Milliard is used instead of Billion.
• Names of large numbers