Bonus fact : As above, a million seconds is A billion seconds? Related : A book of one million random digits. The book has more than reviews, almost all of them jokes.
So, how long would it really take to count to a million? Out loud, for good measure? In fact: we got to watch. By David , 16 September Activity. How long would it take to count to one million? Sing a few scales and practice your…. Calculate how many days it will take!
Words like million and billion are quite common on the news, especially when talking about politics or the economy. Counting to one million takes months. We know this because someone actually did it! Jeremy Harper counted from one to a million live over the internet, to raise money for charity. It took him 89 days. One million may be big, but a billion is a lot bigger. It would take about years, or three lifetimes, to count to one billion. Let's suppose, for the sake of the argument, that you could count one number every second on average.
Since most numbers in that range are something like "five hundred million, seventeen thousand, two hundred and fifty," this is being very optimistic. In that case, it would take you a billion seconds. Dividing that by 60 and leaving the remainder in second form , we find that it would take 16,, minutes and 40 seconds. Dividing the minutes by 60, we find it would take , hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds.
Dividing the hours by 24, we get a new total of 11, days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds.
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