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Herpes-in-space t1_j1gpl0u wrote

Here's a good one for you then to show one million versus one billion.

If you count each second as it passes, you will reach one million in eleven days.

If you count to one billion it'll take 31 years. (31 years is also one thousand spans of eleven days).

So 2.5 M is around 28 days and 4 B is more like 120 years.

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Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1gq2ku wrote

I heard someone say the other day "a billion minus a million is about a billion."

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Herpes-in-space t1_j1gqe1p wrote

1000 minus 1 is almost 1000.

It's every bit as valid as that statement.

10 minus .01 is almost 10.

That too. You're taking away a thousandth.

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