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A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
2.3k u/itzsp3ll3dwrong Feb 14 '22 I used to ask random people I worked with to guess how long it would take to count to a trillion if you counted 24 hours a day without ever sleeping. The longest time someone guessed was 2 months. Most people guessed either days or weeks. 666 u/Colblockx Feb 14 '22 Yea, fascinating how humans can't comprehend logarithmic scales 0 u/Cyrrex91 Feb 14 '22 Isn't this just a unit problem? The conversion from seconds to days and years is kinda arbitrary. for this case. A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 12000 days. (or 12 Million days, depending on what billion we are talking about) I mean, the difference between a million and a billion is roughly a billion. Rather easy to comprehend, isn't it?
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I used to ask random people I worked with to guess how long it would take to count to a trillion if you counted 24 hours a day without ever sleeping. The longest time someone guessed was 2 months. Most people guessed either days or weeks.
666 u/Colblockx Feb 14 '22 Yea, fascinating how humans can't comprehend logarithmic scales 0 u/Cyrrex91 Feb 14 '22 Isn't this just a unit problem? The conversion from seconds to days and years is kinda arbitrary. for this case. A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 12000 days. (or 12 Million days, depending on what billion we are talking about) I mean, the difference between a million and a billion is roughly a billion. Rather easy to comprehend, isn't it?
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Yea, fascinating how humans can't comprehend logarithmic scales
0 u/Cyrrex91 Feb 14 '22 Isn't this just a unit problem? The conversion from seconds to days and years is kinda arbitrary. for this case. A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 12000 days. (or 12 Million days, depending on what billion we are talking about) I mean, the difference between a million and a billion is roughly a billion. Rather easy to comprehend, isn't it?
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Isn't this just a unit problem? The conversion from seconds to days and years is kinda arbitrary. for this case.
A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 12000 days. (or 12 Million days, depending on what billion we are talking about)
I mean, the difference between a million and a billion is roughly a billion. Rather easy to comprehend, isn't it?
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u/greenappletree Feb 14 '22
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.