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I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers:

1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes 1 million seconds is 11.6 days 1 billion seconds is 31.6 years

In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.

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> In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.

Another way to think about these scaling ratios is to realize that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million.

Billion = 10^9

Million = 10^6

9 - 6 = 3. 10^3 = 1000

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