How Big is a Billion?

• How much space is needed to hold 1,000,000 pennies?
• How much does 1,000 pennies weigh? What about 1,000,000 pennies?
• Are there shortcuts to writing the number 1,000? how about 1,000,000? how about 1,000,000,000?
• What do you call the number with 100 zeroes?
• Can you create an Excel spreadsheet to show a chart where the x-axis represents the dates and the y-axis represents the number of pennies?
• Do pennies or M&Ms take up more space? If you compare 100 pennies and 100 M&Ms which takes up more volume and by how much?
• How many seconds in a lifetime? This counting clock finally reached 1 billion seconds after counting from January 1, 1970. What this means is that if you tried to count to 1 trillion, one number per second, it would take you 40,000 years which is longer than the history of people on the planet!
• Other ways of understanding 1 billion? Click here to read these facts
  • A billion seconds is about 31.7 years
  • A billion minutes is about 1901 years
  • A billion hours ago puts us in the Stone Age around 114,000 years ago
  • A billion days ago "no one walked on the earth with 2 feet"
  • A billion dollars ago in terms of US Government spending was between 4-8 minutes
  • Learn more about 1 billion pennies ... click here
  
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