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.
hmmm… you also get all the snow… I’d be glad to trade you some trees for some snow…
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…
Yes, Sam, quite a bit… what do you think, did we clean up another half million leaves last weekend?
Maybe a quarter of a million…