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It would take longer than human history to get as rich as Elon Musk. (hexbear.net)

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If you went back in time to the year 100,000 BC, early homosapiens are beginning to migrate out of Africa and large parts of Europe are under about a kilometre of snow and ice. There are about 90,000 years left in the ice age.

If you are immortal and begin saving $10,000 every single day, without spending any of it, by the time it's 2025 you still won't have the same net worth as Elon fucking Musk.

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://www.ehd.org/science_technology_largenumbers.php

Many ways to visualize some big numbers here.

spoiler

The length of 1,000,000 (one million) one dollar bills laid end-to-end extends 96.9 miles. This would easily traverse the 21 miles across the English Channel from the shores of England to the shores of France and back more than two and a half times.

The length of 100,000,000 (one hundred million) one dollar bills laid end-to-end measures 9,690 miles. This would reachconfused girl from Washington D.C., USA to Sydney, Australia.

The length of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) one dollar bills laid end-to-end measures 96,900 miles. This would extend around the earth almost 4 times.

The length of 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) one dollar bills laid end-to-end measures 9,690,656 miles. This would extend around the earth 387 times.

e: A simple one is that there are 1 million millimeters in 1 km, but there are 1 billion mm in 1000 km.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

And it gets worse these days. Whew.