We’re hearing a lot about projects of a billion dollars or more these days. I got to thinking about just how big a billion is. Here’s a bit of perspective:

  • If you received $1,000 a day, seven days a week, how long would it take to reach a billion? The answer is that it would take you 2,737 years, 10 months, and 7 days to reach a billion. But it would only take 2 years, 8 months, 26 days to reach a million.
  • If you were to count to 1 million, it would take you about 11 days. To count to 1 billion would take about 30 years.
  • If you received $1 every second for your entire life, and you just reached $1 billion dollars, when were you born? The answer is 1976 (a billion seconds is just over 31 years).

I’m going to be a little more in awe of the next billion-plus project that I get wind of. This is just a phenomenal amount of money, and there seem to be a good deal of billion dollar projects taking place these days.

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