I'm pretty sure that the 'British' billion was 1,000,000,000,000 (ie a million million) whereas the US one that has now been adopted is 1,000,000,000 (a thousand million).
reasoning based on a few basic truths by using deductive reasoning based on a few basic truths by using deductive reasoning based on empirical evidence. Sir Francis Bacon believe basic laws of science should be determined by using deductive reasoning based on empirical evidence. Expert answered| imYoung |Points 346|.
Galileo discovered the law during the first decade of the seventeenth century, but in fact he did not understand the law in the general way we have formulated it here. The general formulation of the law of inertia was devised by Galileo's pupils and by Descartes-a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist. This law is also the first of Newton's three laws. Up to the time of Galileo, it was thought that one must exert force in order to cause and preserve motion, as claimed by the physics of Aristotle. Indeed, when we look at the world surrounding us, we see that in order to continue movement we must exert force.