We need to get used to thisThe BBC helps out:
"A million seconds is 11 days;
A billion seconds is around 32 years;
And a trillion therefore is 32,000 years"
Monday, April 13, 2009
How big is one trillion?
We need to get used to thisThe BBC helps out:
"A million seconds is 11 days;
A billion seconds is around 32 years;
And a trillion therefore is 32,000 years"
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Another example of a trillion.
Deposit a million dollars a day into an account.
After a year the account would have 365 million dollars.
After a thousand years the account would have 365 billion dollars, ie a bit more than a third of a trillion dollars.
A this rate it would take 2740 years to accumulate a trillion dollars.
So even if Christ had banked a million dollars (and many say he is still with us) he still wouldn't have a trillion.
... and we'll have to get used to confusion between the British billion (a million million) and American billion (a thousand million)
I wonder which one the BBC uses, given that the American one seems to be more accepted
The BBC uses the American billion - a thousand million - which seems to have become universal.
And more to the point there's also American and British trillions!
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/billion
My gosh. The BBC is sticking with thousands - the accompanying graphic comes from the Beeb.
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