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Probably a lot longer than that. > assuming you count once per second One second is counting pretty slow for small numbers, but it's counting really fast for
by monochromatic 11y ago
Probably a lot longer than that.
> assuming you count once per second
One second is counting pretty slow for small numbers, but it's counting really fast for big numbers. (How quickly can you say "three hundred twenty five million seven hundred ninety six thousand one hundred seventeen"?)
And there are a lot more big numbers than small numbers.
- adnrw 11y agoI agree that at some point (probably reasonably early on actually) it would start taking longer to say the number out loud than one second, so you'd fall behind. However we're talking about counting which is not necessarily saying it out loud. You could just be pushing a button every second, or watching a drop of water fall from a pipe at a constant rate. Anyway, I remember learning this little fact as a kid and it making the numbers (and the difference in magnitude between them) much more tangible. For context, at a rate of 1/sec/sec: 1 = 1 sec 10 = 10 sec 100 = ~1.5 min 1000 = ~17 min 10,000 = ~3 hours 100,000 = ~1 day 1,000,000 = ~12 days 10,000,000 = ~4 months 100,000,000 = ~3 years 1,000,000,000 = ~32 years
- weavie 11y agoIt may also be worth noting (when discussing national debt and the like) that 1 trillion = ~32,000 years.