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One trillion dollars visualized (Original Post)
Kablooie
Jul 2025
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Wicked Blue
(8,722 posts)1. One-trillion-dollars

W_HAMILTON
(10,240 posts)2. Another comparison to put things into perspective:
100,000 seconds is a little over one day.
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
Taken from: https://calculat.io/en/date/seconds
brush
(61,033 posts)5. Thanks. That really drives home how much a trillion is compared to a mere million/billion.
newdeal2
(5,037 posts)3. Is this what the Qatari 747 is for?
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