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highlights the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years- ya'll can't visualize the difference between a 1 and a 1,000?Milan
- Time...things we take for granted most daysutopian
- what does this mean? millionaire worked for 12days and billionaire for 32 years to get there?uan
- I got a serious question here. In South America I was taught 1 billion is equal to 1 million million: 1.000.000.000. How is this in european countries / usa?maquito
- Correction: it’s 12 zeros. 1 billion: 1.000.000.000.000maquito
- I believe in the usa, 1 billion equals 1 thousand million. It’s quite confusing imo.maquito
- 1700 Millionaires are made everyday in the U.S.teh
- 2136 Americans file for bankruptcy everyday in the U.S.utopian
- we all start as multi-billionaires sad that we can't resist to exchange these seconds for money :(sted
- Crazy. Maquito wiki says we all used to refer to a billion as one million millions but that it changed.HijoDMaite
- maquito is right, million millions. that's the "old" way it seems.renderedred
- "1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001." wikipediagrafician
- always use the US billion to talk about money (1000 million) even though it is totally fucking wrong.kingsteven
- It’s not wrong walker.monospaced
- mono, it literally means 1 million million. the bi- prefix means it's the second power of one million. the US billion was only adopted in the UK in the 70'skingsteven
- I like that comparison. Nice.Hayzilla
- exactly, it's not "totally fucking wrong" and hasn't been for almost have a century, but OKAYmonospaced
- I guess there are some old timers who still use the wrong (million million) version, but they're obscure in the UK only. :)monospaced