Anyone can agree to arbitrate a disagreement or legal issue, but the key word is agree. Simply because one of the parties in a dispute desires to enter into arbitration does not take away another party's right to go to court.
Part of the Nanotechnology glossary: (This definition follows U.S. usage in which a billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a 1 followed by 12 zeros.). A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10 -9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory (RAM).
Quick Answer. The length of time it would take to count to a billion depends on how fast an individual counts. At a rate of one number per second, it would take approximately 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds of counting nonstop. Continue Reading.