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I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers: 1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes 1 million seconds is 11.6 days 1 billion
by adnrw 13y ago
I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers:
1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes
1 million seconds is 11.6 days
1 billion seconds is 31.6 years
In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.
- lutusp 13y ago> In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more. Another way to think about these scaling ratios is to realize that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million. Billion = 10^9 Million = 10^6 9 - 6 = 3. 10^3 = 1000