Billion

A billion is a number too large to easily comprehend, yet using relatively basic mathematical tools can be fairly easily calculated and accounted for. In the realm of the abstract, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) is easy to deal with. However if you ever find yourself responsible for a billion of something it will swiftly get out of control.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire, meaning that she has more money, denominated in dollars, than you will ever see. Or not; it might be useful to consider that it is generally agreed that she has control via proxies of a variety of records that grant her authority over notional or real assets that together may be worth more than a billion dollars. Assuming we do not look too closely.