03-30-2020, 12:21 PM
" zinger I read recently: a million is to a trillion, as one penny is to $10,000 dollars"
I think people grasp it better when using time as a comparison. A million seconds is about 12 days, a billion (a thousand million) seconds is about 32 years, a trillion (a thousand billion) is almost 32,000 years.
ETA: Get used to the term Quadrillion: One thousand trillion: Almost 32 million years. It was the amount of money in "derivatives" several years ago.
I think people grasp it better when using time as a comparison. A million seconds is about 12 days, a billion (a thousand million) seconds is about 32 years, a trillion (a thousand billion) is almost 32,000 years.
ETA: Get used to the term Quadrillion: One thousand trillion: Almost 32 million years. It was the amount of money in "derivatives" several years ago.