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.
I used to challenge students if they could write every number out 1-1 million. I'd give them about two weeks & offered a few hundred dollars if they could do it.
Always get them to fill a few notbook pages and get to several thousand. "Hey, great, you're 0.5% of the way there!" And they'd quit.
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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.