One Million

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How big is a million?

Imagine spending one dollar every time the count below counts up once. How long would it take to spend a million dollars?

How much money do you actually spend every week? How long would it take you to spend a million dollars at this rate?

In the 1980's, PCs had a million bytes of memory (one megabyte). Now (2007), they have a billion or more (one gigabyte). Hard disks now come in sizes of one terabyte - a thousand billion.

The computer display you are looking at is made out of about a million pixels. Digital cameras can record images with 10 million pixels.

How big is one million? Wait and see.

Not big enough? Wait for one billion.

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Remaining count to reach 1 million

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Remaining count to reach 1 billion

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Give up? Time the count above and estimate how long it will take to reach one million, and one billion.

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