Time and Money
June 13, 2008
I came across this note in my files the other day. I held on to it because I find it a fascinating way to think about numbers, large abstract numbers. Check it out.
If I spent $1 every second it would take:
11.5 days to spend a million dollars
31.7 years to spend a billion dollars
317 years to spend 10 billion dollars
3170 years to spend 100 billion dollars
and, 6230 years to spend 200 billion dollars…that’s before the pyramids appeared on earth.
Ummm…the cost of the Iraq War is estimated in the trillions. With that large of a number, conceptual years doesn’t even help me. I just have no way to conceptualize “a trillion” of anything.
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What an eye opener…
Here are three things that expand my ability to comprehend gigantic sizes.
1. There are about as many H2O molecules in a thimble-full of water as there are thimbles of water in all the world’s oceans.
2. http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/
3. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/