How much is a Trillion ???

[RayFinkel]

1,000,000,000,000

To put it into perspective:

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.


1,000 Thousands equals 1 Million
1,000 Millions equals 1 Billion
1,000 Billions equals 1 Trillion



I guess, I have wasted 120 days of my life 'Boxing the Clown'




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[RayFinkel]

Found more interesting chit.

Let's start with money. Let's imagine that you have a fantastic job that pays you one dollar for every second you work. (As you will see, there are people who get paid more than that.) There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. If you were only getting paid for as 40-hour work week for all 52 weeks of the year, you would still be getting paid $7,488,000 in a year. And if you were getting your $1/sec rate for every second of the year, you would take in $31,536,000 for the entire year. At that rate, to earn a trillion dollars, you would have to work more than 31,709 years! And even if they magnanimously paid you $1,000/sec, it would still take you more than 31 years to earn that first $1 Trillion. They say the war in Iraq is costing taxpayers about $2 Billion dollars per week. There are 3,600 seconds in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week for a total of 604,800 seconds per week. At $2 Billion per week, the Iraq War costs us over $3,000 every second! Can I borrow a couple of bucks for the rent this month?

Suppose you are a baseball fan. How can you relate to this? Let's start with A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, third baseman (currently) for the New York Yankees. (Enjoy your winter, boys! Ha-ha.) A-Rod made big news when he signed a contract estimated to be worth about $250 Million. He's hoping to get another one just like it on a team from which he'll retire several years down the road. There are 30 teams in the Major Leagues and at the end of the season, they are each allowed to carry 40 players on their rosters. So that's 1,200 players in the majors at the end of the season. (Forget about the Disabled List and the openings they leave. Go with this, because it will amaze you.) If they gave every player on the 40-man roster of every one of the 30 teams in the Major Leagues a contract like A-Rods, they still wouldn't add up to $1 Trillion. In fact, it wouldn't even add up to a third of a trillion dollars. Put another way, the War in Iraq will end up costing us more than three times what it would cost to give every player on the 40-man roster of every team in the Major Leagues a contract like A-Rod's. Yet they still raise ticket prices every year.

 

[RayFinkel]

Light travels at about 186,282 miles per second. A "light-year" is the distance that light travels in the course of a year. (It is actually a unit of distance, not of time.) At 31,536,000 seconds in a year (remember that fantastic salary you had two paragraphs back?), light travels about 5,874,589,152,000 miles in one year. The nearest star in the galaxy to our own is about 4 light-years away. That means that they are nearly 25 Trillion miles away from us. Scientists have observed things in the Universe that they conclude are older than the Universe itself (meaning they pre-dated the Big Bang.) The Universe is also estimated to be anywhere between 10 and 20 Billion years old, so let's say that thing they saw was about 15 billion years old. What that means is that it took that light from that object 15 billion years to reach us. Which means it traveled about 90 Trillion miles to get here. And there's every reason to believe that there is more of the Universe beyond that. And that ours is the only collection of galaxies comprising our own Universe. Even further away from us are other collections of galaxies forming their own Universe. Imagine how much gas it would take to drive there. (Let's see, at 30 miles to the gallon, $3 per gallon,...)

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[a 1 player]

Staggering thoughts.

 

[RayFinkel]

Staggering thoughts.

I thought you were goin' to say... .meh

LMAO

What blows me away is, the jump from a billion to a trillion.

Fuckin' astounding!



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[herames]

I thought you were goin' yo say... .meh

LMAO

What blows me away is, the jump from a billion to a trillion.

Fuckin' astounding!



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I'll have what Ray ray is smoking...hehe...nice profound, intriguing, stimulating and prospective thought. ^_^ Cheers

 

[dandywriter]

a trillion visually

If you stack $1,000 bills six inches high, it's a million dollars. If you stack a trillion dollars of $1,000 bills, it would be 500,000 feet high.

Space begins at 100,000 feet.

 

[pencilneckgeek2]

Meh.

 

[gramage]

How much is a trillion?

Enough that the US could give me some money and noone would notice the difference

 

[hairyfucker]

1,000,000,000,000

1,000 Thousands equals 1 Million
1,000 Millions equals 1 Billion
1,000 Billions equals 1 Trillion

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Actually a trillion could be either 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million) or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million billion)

The million million is the most common modern usage whereas the million billion is mathematically more precise but not the most commonly accepted modern definition.

 

[MrIndy]

Actually a trillion could be either 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million) or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million billion)

The million million is the most common modern usage whereas the million billion is mathematically more precise but not the most commonly accepted modern definition.

You just melted my brain

 

[alexmst]

Actually a trillion could be either 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million) or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million billion)

The million million is the most common modern usage whereas the million billion is mathematically more precise but not the most commonly accepted modern definition.

...and in Zimbabwe a trillion dollars of local currency might keep you stocked with groceries for a week

 

[fuji]

So how do I get myself 0.1% of that money in my pocket?

 

[a 1 player]

So how do I get myself 0.1% of that money in my pocket?

If you figure it out, please fill me in.

 

[tbert118]

I thought you were goin' to say... .meh

LMAO

What blows me away is, the jump from a billion to a trillion.

Fuckin' astounding!



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it should be astounding, your adding three zero's. Anytime you add three zero's to the back of a number theres a significant jump. If you want to make the jump from trillion to quadrillion. Just add three zero's.

10^6 = 1 000 000 = 1 million
10^9 = 1 000 000 000 = 1 Billion
10^12 = 1 000 000 000 000 = 1 trillion
10^15 = 1 000 000 000 000 000 = 1 Quadrillion
10 ^ 18 = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 = 1 Pentillion

and so on....

 

[serviceman]

Actually a trillion could be either 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million) or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million billion)

The million million is the most common modern usage whereas the million billion is mathematically more precise but not the most commonly accepted modern definition.

I always thought that in north america a billion was a thousand million, and for the british, a billion was a million million, what we call a trillion.

 

[Gyaos]

10^6 = 1 000 000 = 1 million
10^9 = 1 000 000 000 = 1 Billion
10^12 = 1 000 000 000 000 = 1 trillion
10^15 = 1 000 000 000 000 000 = 1 Quadrillion
10 ^ 18 = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 = 1 Pentillion
and so on....

And 1 followed by one hundred zeros is a WHAT, children?

Professor Gyaos Baltar.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Isn't that a "googleplex"? (Where "Google" borrowed their name from...)

 

[LancsLad]

I always thought that in north america a billion was a thousand million, and for the british, a billion was a million million, what we call a trillion.

Thats what we learned in school.


Gotta love confusion.



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[Gyaos]

Isn't that a "googleplex"? (Where "Google" borrowed their name from...)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEERGGGGG!! BUZZER SOUND!

1 followed by 100 zeros is a Google.

1 followed by 100 zeros to the 10th power is a Google Plex.

Google STOLE their name from that. Google is toast in the next couple of years, will probably split up and fire many executives. Count my googleplexes on that.

Gyaos Baltar.