Million, Billion, Trillion?

[TehBorken]

[big]What's the difference between a million, a billion,      a trillion?[/big]A million seconds is 13 days.
     A billion seconds is 31 years.
     A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.[/p]     [img]vny!://www.tysknews.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif" border="0" height="6" width="88"][/p]     A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
     A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.[/p]     [img]vny!://www.tysknews.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif" border="0" height="6" width="88"][/p]     A million hours ago was in 1885.
     A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.[/p]     [img]vny!://www.tysknews.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif" border="0" height="6" width="88"][/p]     A million dollars ago was five (5) seconds ago at the U.S. Treasury.
     A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.[/p]     [img]vny!://www.tysknews.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif" border="0" height="6" width="88"][/p]     A trillion dollars is so large a number that only politicians
     can use the term in conversation... probably because they
     seldom think about what they are really saying. I've read that
     mathematicians do not even use the term trillion!
     Here is some perspective on TRILLION:[/p]      Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000.
     The country has not existed for a trillion seconds.
     Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
     One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the plains of      Europe.[/p]     [img]vny!://www.tysknews.com/images/storyend_dingbat.gif" border="0" height="6" width="88"][/p]     Million: 1,000,000
     Billion: 1,000,000,000
     Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000
     Quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
     Sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
     Nonillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
     Centillion: 1 followed by 303 zeros[/p]  

[kingy]

"A trillion dollars is so large a number that only politicians can use the term in conversation"



rofl, i guess when they said this, they were thinking about gwb (bush) and his trillion dollar budget.

[cartman]

is it even possible to make a billion dollers and if you had that much what would you do with it?

[Sportsdude]

yes you can print out that much, they had a hearing on billions of dollars that just disappeared into Iraq. It was flown to Iraq on planes.


 

[Russ]

Sportsdude wrote:
yes you can print out that much, they had a hearing on billions of dollars that just disappeared into Iraq. It was flown to Iraq on planes.


 
 LOL! Are you serious? Thats fawkin hilarious.

[Sportsdude]

 Nope I was laughing my ass off though when I watched the hearing.  Those giant huge cargo planes 52 of them or something, all packed with US money.  Landed in Baghdad and then *poof* disappeared and the administration doesn't know where it went to.

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You can't make this stuff up.