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Investors owning as little as $2,000 of a company’s stock—about 16 billionths of the average market capitalization of an S&P 500 company—can force a vote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

High-speed traders are feuding over a way to save 3.2 billionths of a second.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

It would be like taking the energy of a 40-tonne articulated lorry travelling at 60mph and focussing it on the centimetre-sized capsule for a few billionths of a second.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

But the identification of nanoplastics — particles that measure just billionths of a meter — is raising alarms.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024

For all that, the pair did succeed in measuring the time lag of the photoelectric effect at about two billionths of a second.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik