Place Value

How many minutes are there in a year?

How many seconds in a year?

X 60

525,600 minutes

31,536,000

One Billion

How much is one billion?  It's common knowledge that a billion has three more zeros than a million, and is one thousand times a million, but comprehending its enormous magnitude is often misunderstood.  To appreciate the distance of one billion light years, the concept of one billion people, or the value of one billion dollars, let's try putting this number into perspective.  To count to one thousand, counting one number every second continuously, it would take 17 minutes.  Counting to one million at the same rate, it would take 12 days (counting nonstop, day and night).  But counting to one billion would take 32 years!  That's right; years.   Imagine counting $1 billion with $1,000 dollar bills (hypothetically).  Using the above calculations, at the rate of $1,000 per second, you'd be counting your cash for 12 days!

Bill Gates was estimated to be worth approximately $40,000,000,000 in 1998.  At the present age of 44, let's predict that he lives another 40 years.  Assuming he retires tomorrow, and never earns a dime of interest, in order to deplete his funds at a constant rate over the next 40 years, he would have to spend $1,000,000,000 (or $1000 million) a year!  That's $83,000,000 a month, $19,000,000 a week, or breaking it down further, he would have to spend over $114,000 an hour, day and night, for 40 years.  Bill Gates, ladies and gentleman, is a rich man.

Facebook now connects more than one billion people

Number of Tweets as of 2008

A Billion: A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone

Age. A billion days ago no one walked on the earth on two legs. A billion is a thousand million. If you wanted to count to a billion, it would take 31 years,

251 days, 7 hours and 39 seconds. A billion dollars is 266 small U-Haul boxes jammed end-to-

end and floor to ceiling in crisp $100 dollar bills. It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon. $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the

past 20 years.

Trillions = 1,000,000,000,000

Zynga is an internet web based game company

Zynga has wasted 1.8 trillion minutes of human time.

1.8 trillion person-minutes is 30 billion person-hours. That's 1.25 billion person-days. That's 3.4 million person-years. If the average person lives 70 years, that means that

Zynga destroyed 50,000 lifetimes.

Zynga has killed 50,000 people so far...

World Population

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