Boris promises us that the £9b budget for 2012 Games will be kept to. Is that £1000m or £1 million million?

Question

Whichever definition of a billion is used, 9 of them is an appalling sum to spend. My calculator cannot handle it; we're 59m. of us here in Britain;can anyone tell me how much per head that will come to?

Answer 1

One billion = One Thousand Million

Therefore £9 Billion

= £152.55 per UK head

Answer 2

£1 billion=£1,000 million.

Answer 3

It's not come at an ideal time however- zero economic growth for the first time in sixteen years and the "credit crunch" mean money just isn't available.

Answer 4

We're a 'short scale' country so it's 1,000 million.

1,000,000,000.

Not that it affects us per head but it'd works out at £150.00 each.

Answer 5

£9 billion = £9,000,000,000 (= £9,000 million)

Approximately working age of the UK is 60% (age 16 to 65). So 60% of the UK's population of 60 million are tax payers.

60% of 60 million = 36 million

Divide £9,000 million by 36 million persons is about £250 per tax payer.

Answer 6

Blame that c**k Ken for it........

Answer 7

1 billion is equal to 1000 million.

Us Londoners are paying more than any1 else in the Country. It is paid for in by our council tax, we should have free passes to the entire thing.

So it cannot be broke up per person in the UK (closer to 65 million)

Forgot to add that Seamus is also correct in that when I was in school (left 18 years ago) the UK billion was written as 1,000,000 million.

Vastly different is indeed right. Don't know why we have to adopt the yanks version.

Answer 8

9 billion is 9 million * 1000,

the calculation written out:

9,000,000,000

/

     59,000,000

= 152.5423729

As in (roughly) £150 per head.

Hope that answers your question.

Answer 9

Are you suggesting Britain is one of the poorest countries in the world who cannot even afford the olympics?

If London did it twice in the past 1908, 1948, why cant we in 2012?

Answer 10

Around 150£/each.

Answer 11

unfortunately a majority of people in the U.K. now use the American version of billion, rather than the U.K. one. Boris too is guilty of this.

US and increasingly UK Billion is 1,000 million

Whereas UK billion is 1,000,000 million.

vastly different