logic teasers

[didghtara]

how long would it take you to count to a billion if you counted one number per second 24 hour per day

[Stephen_G]

My maths is pretty ropey, but I'll offer this for dissection...

86,400 seconds in a day goes into one billion
11,574.074074074074074074074074074 (recurring)
times, so that would equate to

31.70959 years.

ish.

[squarebear]

Ah but that is an American billion(1,000,000,000), the UK billion is 1,000,000,000,000 and would take a thousand times longer, so assuming your maths is correct:

31,709.59 years

[GlenB]

I believe Britain adopted the US definition of billion , I think in the reign of Harold Wilson.

[barry123]

It would take One Billion seconds !!!

[matt1e]

well said barry and your answer works for both us and uk billions lol