Saturday, September 5, 2009

Peter Martin: How big is one trillion?

Peter Martin: How big is one trillion?
Another example of a trillion.

Deposit a million dollars a day into an account.

After a year the account would have 365 million dollars.

After a thousand years the account would have 365 billion dollars, ie a bit more than a third of a trillion dollars.

A this rate it would take 2740 years to accumulate a trillion dollars.

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