I'm thinking of a number between one and one billion. Can you guess what it is? Trick question: it was one billion, which isn't technically between one and one billion, but that doesn't matter now because I just wanted to get you thinking about numbers. So think about it. One billion. Or try it this way: ONE BILLION. Maybe like this: 1*10^9. Even 1,000,000,001 - 1 is a viable if annoying mathematical option. There's a lot of ways to say it, but they all mean the same thing, i.e. a really big number that fits in between one million and one trillion on the chart of "Numbers We Know Yet Can't Really Comprehend and Especially Can't Count To Without Using a Computer." While perhaps most famous for being Dr. Evil's ransom request, on Thursday that number took on an entirely new, completely un-Mike-Myers-related connotation: as of September 14th, it is also
the number of active monthly users on Facebook.
