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T he big billion days mean different things to different people. How do you write out one hundred billion in numbers. United nations secretary general ban kimoon spoke at the united nations building in new york city on this new milestone in the size of world population and the issues that. In japanese science fiction he might be better known for the novel ten billion days and one hundred billion nights, which combines interest in technology and the buddha. Do study what he teaches, and youll do pretty well. The earths population is expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050. It is actually 31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds 1 billion seconds equal 1 billion divided by the number of seconds in a year 31,536,000 equals 31,709. One hundred billion nightsthat is how far into the future jesus of nazareth, siddhartha, and the demigod asura will travel to witness the end of all worlds. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. Ten billion days and one hundred billion nights books by ryu. He says based on a 25year generation, a world of 6,000 years has just 240 generations, but a world of 4. Nov 03, 2010 but these days, a few hundred billion does not seem like that much. Originally published in 1973, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 2001.
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