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Apologies in advance for this rather silly question, but what is 60 billion as a percentage of 2.9 Trillion?

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

About a free trade deal's worth

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

Trillion and billion have both had a couple of different definitions in the past.

In the sense that they're normally used these days, it's just a smidge over 2%.

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

About 2%
100*(60*(10**9))/(2.9*(10**12))

In reply to The Ice Doctor:


Isn't this known as "The Daily Mail" ratio? Bit similar to the "golden" ratio.

In reply to Scotch Bingington:

Why are you harping on about the Daily Mail? I don't touch it! 2 % I suppose that's not a lot really is it.

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

For a "back of a fag packet" calculation for non mathematicians....

Round 2.9 trillion up to 3 trillion to make the figures easier.
Using currently used definitions of billion/trillion you now have .....

(60 thousand million) divided by (3 thousand thousand million)
The 'thousand million bits cancel out so it's the same as ......

60 / 3000
Take a zero off both....

6/300
Divide both by 3....

2/100 = 2%

Remembering that you rounded up the larger figure, the actual result will be a little bit higher than this.

In reply to Ron Rees Davies:

Surely the simplest way to do this calculation (in your head) is 6 times 10 to the 10, over (roughly) 3 times 10 to the 12, equals 2 times 10 to the -2.

In reply to John Stainforth:

It is if you know about indices, but what if you don't?

Lots of things are easy when you know how to do them.

In reply to John Stainforth:


I prefer 60 billion over 3000 billion which easily cancels to 1/50

In reply to Robert Durran:

For this particular sum, that's a very good way to do it. But I find the index method is the least error-prone, general way to do order-of-magnitude calculations in the head.

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

2.069%

Wolfram Alpha is a good tool to use for questions like this:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=60+billion+as+a+percentage+of+2.9+Tri...

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

Are you Diane Abbott ?

In reply to wercat:


they can be for the right money

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

It's (60/2900)*100

In reply to The Ice Doctor:

A lot less than WTO tariffs ?

In reply to krikoman:

they can be for the right money

For the right money, you can get 20 Diane Abbott's. No, it's 2. Erm, 200, 000?