It’s big. Very Big.
3.2 trillion dollar budget?
a million seconds (a thousand thousand) – 11 1/2 days
a billion seconds – 32 years
a trillion seconds – 32,000 years
stack dollar bills
100 bills – about 1/2 inch
1 million 1-dollar bills – 4 feet
1 billion 1-dollar bills – 4,000 feet (3 sears towers stacked on top of one another)
1 trillion 1-dollar bills – 789 miles (144 mt everests stacked on top of one another)
spend a 1,000 dollars a day
how long to spend a trillion dollars?
2.7 million years
a trillion dollars is enough to buy everyone in the united states 1,000 boxes of girl scout cookies
got this from a podcast called science friday… really puts into perspective i think exactly how big our proposed budget and how insane people have to be to spend that much money.
Microsoft makes about a billion dollars each week. That’s 52 billion each year for ONE company. At this rate it would take Microsoft 19 years to make 1 trillion dollars.
The US GDP is $13.3 trillion. (The estimated world GDP is $65.5 trillion.)
A trillion is not so big in many respects. A terabyte hard drive is a couple hundred dollars. That’s trillions of bytes, which is 8 trillion bits.
A trillion is 10**12, the number of particles in the universe is 10**64. My ruby interpreter can handle either number without complaint.
I think 3.2 trillion is probably MUCH higher than is strictly necessary. However, that’s the nature of a bureaucracy.
I guess what bugs me about this kind of analysis is that you can frame a number to say ANYTHING you want. I mean, I can make 100 seem big if I’m talking about elephants in bathtubs.
Let’s take that $3.2 trillion budget and convert it into GBP. All of a sudden we’re down to a much smaller number! £1.6 trillion!
Apparently the comment system munged my exponentiation operators. Fourth paragraph: 1012 should be 10^12 and 1064 should be 10^64.
What’s wrong with using asteriskasterisk for exponentiation?
thats funny that you mention microsoft cause in that same podcast and in reference to how much money bill gates makes, they basically said that he makes so much money per hour per day per second that the time it would take him to pick up a thousand dollars off the floor would actually waste more money than not picking it up (or something like that)
also, yah, something stinks about this comment system cause it doesnt like exclamation points for whatever reason!!! and something else… also i gotta fix the error at the bottom of the page
id love a terabyte hard drive, but you still have to say that a trillion is a pretty large number. in terms of money alone it would knock off my debt and any of my other visitors debt and also set off a lot of cool projects
Here’s an fun trillion:
One skittle weighs 736.8 +/- 7 mg.
One trillion skittles weighs between 72.98 and 74.38 thousand billion milligrams. That’s 736.8 million kilograms which is 736,800 metric tons.
NASA’s space shuttle is 2,029 metric tons. So a trillion skittles is equivalent to 363 space shuttles.
The moon weighs about 81 billion tons. So a trillion skittles is .0000090962962…962 of the mass of the moon.
I’m having way too much fun with this.
I dig it.