NUMBERS
Not Just
Counting
How high can you count? How much money is a lot of money? How far away is far away? How much time is a lot of time?
|
numeral |
word |
10n |
pre/ |
pre* |
wealth in $ |
distance in feet |
time in seconds |
weight in pounds |
|
1 |
one |
100 |
|
uni |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
ten |
101 |
deci |
deca |
|
|
|
|
|
100 |
hundred |
102 |
centi |
cent |
|
|
|
|
|
1,000 |
thousand |
103 |
milli |
kilo |
one
week's work |
4
NYC blocks |
16
minutes / coffee break |
6
people |
|
1,000,000 |
million |
106 |
micro |
mega |
a
life's work |
189
miles / NYC to Boston |
12
days / vacation |
|
|
1,000,000,000 |
billion |
109 |
nano |
giga |
assets
of richest person in USA |
from
Earth to the Moon |
32
years / older than you |
|
|
1,000,000,000,000 |
trillion |
1012 |
pico |
tera |
one
year's total US tax revenues |
diameter
of Earth's orbit |
31,710
years / prehistory |
everyone
on Earth |
|
1,000,000,000,000,000 |
quadrillion |
1015 |
|
peda |
all
the money ever |
12
light days |
31,709,792
years |
1/billionth
Earth mass |
|
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
quintillion |
1018 |
|
|
forget
about it; not in our vocabulary |
33
light years holds 100 star systems |
|
|
Actually, what this is all about is the magnitude of sheer numbers, especially when one counts exponentially.