How much is a million?
Oct 28th, 2007 by craig
You know all those visual aids they have that help you visualize large numbers like a million? For example, did you know that a wall of pennies four feet wide by five feet tall by one foot thick is just about a million pennies (see http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp ). Or a million gallons of water would fill a pool almost 300 feet long by 50 feet wide by 10 feet deep. A million seconds is just over 12 days. You could actually fit a million dollars in a sturdy suitcase, assuming they were all $100 bills – see http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html .
Well, if you really want to see what a million looks like, stop by our place just about anytime in October and we’ll show you what has to be about a millioin leaves, all of which will need to be raked up.
Glad I don’t have one single tree. During the summer that’s a different story.
The amount of seconds and pennies doesn’t seem too much until you remember how small a penny is… or how short a second is… twelve days in seconds? That’s… quite a bit…
Maybe a quarter of a million…