Saturday, September 25, 2021

Big Numbers - Million, Billion , Trillion

Sometimes we throw around numbers like a million or billion or trillion or more very casually. It's good to have a frame of reference to compare to. 

For example, 1,000 seconds is almost 17 minutes. One million seconds are counted off in about eleven and a half days. But it takes 32 years for one billion seconds!  That's how much bigger a billion is to a million.

A trillion seconds would amount to no less than 31,709.8 years!

Think of that when you hear of trillion dollar deficits and budgets.

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