See "How big is a billion?" by Numberphile: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ * https://en.wikipedia.o

See "How big is a billion?" by Numberphile: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales (Given a choice, I would go with the long system, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the timeline we live in.)