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richard branson is worth an estimated �1.4 BILLION.i have a proposal for him that could save every single person in the uk...there are an estimated 50 million people in the uk if he gave eveyone �1million pounds that would save this country from economic gloom securing prosperity for everyone,he would be a national hero,we could rename great britain.....the richard branson islands.....and he wouldnt even be skint........
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Stokemaveric might be giving away his age with this question ;-)
When I was at school, a 'billion' was 10 to the power 12 (i.e. one million million). However, the US 'billion' was 10 to the power 9 (i.e. one thousand million). In those days, it didn't really matter what the 'true' definition was, because a 'billion' was such a large number it was never really used in things like news reports.
With inflation (and 'globalisation'), a standard definition has become necessary and (unsurprisingly) the American definition has been adopted by the media. It seems that Stokemaveric is unaware of this and is basing his calculations upon the assumption that the 'old' definition still applies.
Even so, I'm still concerned that Stokemaveric has managed to 'lose' some of the UK population. Am I, I wonder, one of the 10 million people he's ignored? ;-)
(The UK population is roughly 60 million, not 50 million!)
Chris
When I was at school, a 'billion' was 10 to the power 12 (i.e. one million million). However, the US 'billion' was 10 to the power 9 (i.e. one thousand million). In those days, it didn't really matter what the 'true' definition was, because a 'billion' was such a large number it was never really used in things like news reports.
With inflation (and 'globalisation'), a standard definition has become necessary and (unsurprisingly) the American definition has been adopted by the media. It seems that Stokemaveric is unaware of this and is basing his calculations upon the assumption that the 'old' definition still applies.
Even so, I'm still concerned that Stokemaveric has managed to 'lose' some of the UK population. Am I, I wonder, one of the 10 million people he's ignored? ;-)
(The UK population is roughly 60 million, not 50 million!)
Chris
Recently released estimates of the mid-2007 UK population by country:
England - 51.1 million
Scotland - 5.1 million
Wales - 3.0 million
N. Ireland - 1.8 million
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/popest0808 .pdf
Hmmm... I wonder which 10 million are missing from the calculation ;-)
England - 51.1 million
Scotland - 5.1 million
Wales - 3.0 million
N. Ireland - 1.8 million
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/popest0808 .pdf
Hmmm... I wonder which 10 million are missing from the calculation ;-)
Whatho stoke old chap
When you go and see Mr Branson - please tell him I only want 100k
Seriously though , have a read of this - not bad for a lad who had '' ... a poor acedemic performance ... ' - and started out growing christmas trees and raising budgerigars -- hey what ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
Just quickly picking out a few interesting things -
- 360 companies
- Donating the profits of Virgin atlantic and Virgin trains
( apoprox 3 Billion ) , into research for enviromentally friendly fuels - ( doesn't that make the pain of the cost of the ticket more bearable ? )
- Virgin earth challenge
- How the name ' Virgin ' was chosen
Dont you think he should get a proper job ?
When you go and see Mr Branson - please tell him I only want 100k
Seriously though , have a read of this - not bad for a lad who had '' ... a poor acedemic performance ... ' - and started out growing christmas trees and raising budgerigars -- hey what ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
Just quickly picking out a few interesting things -
- 360 companies
- Donating the profits of Virgin atlantic and Virgin trains
( apoprox 3 Billion ) , into research for enviromentally friendly fuels - ( doesn't that make the pain of the cost of the ticket more bearable ? )
- Virgin earth challenge
- How the name ' Virgin ' was chosen
Dont you think he should get a proper job ?
Just out of interest, stokemaveric, how did you estimate that the Bearded Wonder could give �1m to everybody and still not be skint?
Even if your definition of a billion is a million million as Buenchico suggests, he would still need 35 times as much cash as estimates say he has. And that is ignoring the population discrepancy.
Even if your definition of a billion is a million million as Buenchico suggests, he would still need 35 times as much cash as estimates say he has. And that is ignoring the population discrepancy.
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