Million, billion and trillion.

[pplpilot]

I was reading about big numbers earlier. Million I get. Billion I get. But a trillion is near unfathomable.
To count to a trillion, and for the sake of argument, one increment/second would take as near as damn it 31,700 years. Gulp. US debt is currently about £20 trillion. Counting to a million is approx 11 days...

 

[classic33]

US or UK figures?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Counting to a million is approx 11 days...

You're ok I have this one covered, I used to do something similar during hide and seek in the late 70s - one, two, three, one million, coming ready or not...

 

[Tin Pot]

A trillion is a big number.

 

[rualexander]

Maybe one trillion trillion stars in the universe, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 give or take a few.

 

[TVC]

Maybe one trillion trillion stars in the universe, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 give or take a few.

That God bloke was really busy on the first day wasn't he. No wonder he had Sunday off.

 

[AndyRM]

 

[Fonze]

What's after a trillion ?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What's after a trillion ?

Marmosillian

 

[TVC]

What's after a trillion ?

If I recall it was Arthur Dent, but Zaphod Beeblebrox got there first.






<takes a nerdy lap of honour>

 

[Mr Celine]

What's after a trillion ?

A trillion and one.

 

[Tin Pot]

Gagillion.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

What's after a trillion ?

A trillion and one.

Hammer time

 

[PK99]

most people actually fail to grasp even a million.

1
10x1=10
10×10=100
10×100=1000
so far so easy to comprehend the scaling.

but the next step is different.
1000×1000=1million

 

[BrynCP]

most people actually fail to grasp even a million.

1
10×1=100
10×100=1000
so far so easy to comprehend the scaling.

but the next step is different.
1000×1000=1million

And the long lost milliard is next:
1000x1000000 = 1 milliard, also known as a billion in modern times influence by the American English. 1 billion is really 1000000x1000000.