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How much is a Billion?
legman 13348 reads
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A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases:

A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate California Governor Gray Davis and his adminstration spends it.
 
 
 

Vanderdecker14289 reads

>A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.

No, 1971.

>A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.

A.D. 102?  That's a matter of faith, I suppose.

>A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

True, though awfully vague.

> A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate
>California Governor Gray Davis and his adminstration spends it.

I'll leave it to you Californians to determine whether the executive branch of your state government is actually plowing through more than $1 trillion per annum.

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rabble12824 reads

How could Vanderbecker, if that's who it was, do the math wrong?  How slanted is that?  Jeez!!1

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Purity Shapiro12188 reads

If you have a million dollars you can give your wife $1000/day to spend for almost 3 years before you run out of money.

If you have a billion dollars you can give your wife $1000/day to spend for almost 3000 years before you run out of money.

a mathematician.

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OCSIR13340 reads

but that reminds me of a story about the Hunt family fortune. Lamar Hunt owned the Dallas Texans of the old AFL and they lost over 1 million dollars in the 1963 season. A reporter asked HL Hunt (Lamar’s dad) what Lamar would do if that continued. HL drawled “Son, at that rate, he can only last another 125 years”

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seriousfun14429 reads

"A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate California Governor Gray Davis and his adminstration spends it."

Or a few days deeper into debt the way the Bush administration donates it to the wealthiest Americans.

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