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Now let's stop and think for a moment: What
does the number one billion mean to you? For exam-
32 ple, if you put two zeros next to the number one, it

becomes 100. If you add one more zero to this number,

it becomes 1,000. Add another zero and now you have

the number 10,000 (ten thousand). Can you count up

to 10,000? Maybe you can, but this will probably take

a long time. Meanwhile, we still have not reached a

billion. Then let us add two more zeros to 10,000. Now

we have 1,000,000 (one million). We are still short of

the number of stars in galaxies. However, if you put

three more zeros next to 1,000,000, you reach the
number 1,000,000,000 (one billion). Can you count up

to 1,000,000,000? Let's answer this outright: Counting