Question: is 10 hundred million a billion?
Answer: 1,000,000,000. 1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. One billion can also be written as b or bn. In scientific notation, it is written as 1 × 109.