billions!

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

The modern world talks extraordinarily huge numbers like billions. Lets figure this out...

1 hour = 3600 seconds
1 day = 86400 seconds
1 year = 31,536,000 seconds
32 x 31,536,000 = 1,009,152,000.
So about a billion seconds ago it was 1978!

So when we talk about the trillion dollar Greek bailout, or the American debt it's incredible.
It would take 32,000 years to spend a dollar a second, assuming you earned $3600/hr, even while sleeping.

Comments

[rasilio.livejournal.com]

except in this case the comparison is not to show similarity in properties but similarities in scale in which case comparing apples to oranges is appropriate since they are roughly the same size.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

You win.

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

That was my original point... at least the one in my head before I wrote it down and posted it. I was just astonished how big these numbers are and I was trying to convey that.