One Billion
One billion is, for lack of a better word, A LOT . Most people use this number without realizing how big it really is. In this essay, I intend to give you a perspective on just how large a number one billion is. One billion seconds, one billion names written on a banner, one billion hairs.....each of these things may be small, but when there are one billion of them, it's a whole different ball game. One billion seconds past October 16, 2002 1:00:00 p.m. would be June 24, 2033 2:46:40 p.m. To find this out, the following math must be done. 1,000,000,000 (seconds) divided by 60 (seconds per minute) equals 16666666.67 (minutes in one billion seconds). This number divided by 60 (minutes per hour) equals 277777.7778 (hours in one billion seconds). This number divided by 24 (hours per day) equals 11574.07407 (days in one billion seconds). This number divided by 365 (days per year) equals 31.70979197 (years in one billion seconds). Now .70979197 must be broken down into days, hours, minu
One billion is a lot easier to say than it is to imagine. It may only be three syllables, but its meaning is almost incomprehensible. And to think that the United States owes over six TRILLION dollars....... A banner that has all of a person's direct descendants in 30 generations would be 50,840 miles 255 feet 9.16 inches long (assuming that each name takes up three inches). To find this out, the following math must be done. 1 multiplied by 2 equals 2, 2 multiplied by 2 equals 4, 4 multiplied by 2 equals 8, 8 multiplied by 2 equals 16......this (multiplying the previous product by 2) is done 30 times (once per generation). Then each of the 30 products are added together, and we get the number of direct descendants a person has in 30 generations. The number is 1,073,741,823. This number multiplied by 3 (inches) equals 3,221,225,469 (inches). 3,221,225,469 (inches) divided by 63,360 (inches per mile) equals 50840.04844 (miles in 3,221,225,469 inches). .04844 (miles) multiplied b
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