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One Billion How much is one billion? It's common knowledge that a billion has three more zeros than a million, and is one thousand times a million, but comprehending its enormous magnitude is often misunderstood. To appreciate the distance of one billion light years, the concept of one billion people, or the value of one billion dollars, let's try putting this number into perspective. To count to one thousand, counting one number every second continuously, it would take 17 minutes. Counting to one million at the same rate, it would take 12 days (counting nonstop, day and night). But counting to one billion would take 32 years! That's right; years. Imagine counting $1 billion with $1,000 dollar bills (hypothetically). Using the above calculations, at the rate of $1,000 per second, you'd be counting your cash for 12 days!

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A Billion:  A billion seconds ago it was  A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.  A billion days ago no one walked on the earth on two legs.  A billion is a thousand million.  If you wanted to count to a billion, it would take 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours and 39 seconds.  A billion dollars is 266 small U-Haul boxes jammed end-to-end and floor to ceiling in crisp $100 dollar bills.  It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.  $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

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