One billionth is the reciprocal of a billion, which means it has one of two definitions depending on whether the long scale or short scale definition is being used. ==Short scale countries== In most English-speaking countries, a billionth is equal to 0.000 000 001, or 1 x 10-9 in scientific notation. The prefix for this number is nano, and is abbr... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionth