Numbers

I can't remember my age if you put me on the spot. I have to do the math half the time.

Trillion

Trillion is a million times a million. 1,000,000,000,000

Ways to grasp the heft of the number trillion:

If you made one million dollars take home a year, it would take you one million years to have earned a trillion dollars.

If you made one billion dollars take home a year, it would still take you one thousand years to earn a trillion dollars.

A million seconds is about eleven and a half days.

A trillion seconds is about 32,000 years.

A trillion dollars is about enough money to buy every one in the U. S. one thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies each. About $3300 a each. ($1,000,000,000,000 ÷ 300,000,000 people in the U. S.) Or, one of Jake's new laptops each.

The latest U. S. budget is 4.2 trillion dollars.

Googol

Googol a one followed by 100 zeros or a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times ten thousand)

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,<breath>
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,<big breath>
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, <gasp, pass out>

I believe the example I saw said there are not this many atoms in the known universe. Why would you ever need a bigger number?

Googolplex (a bigger number)

Googolplex is a one followed by a Google zeros. I'm not cutting and pasting that one.