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|.
Science includes many principles at least once thought to be laws of nature: Newtonâs law of gravitation, his three laws of motion, the ideal gas laws, Mendelâs laws, the laws of supply and demand, and so on. Other regularities important to science were not thought to have this status.