Just How Much Is a Trillion?
• One trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 -- 10 to the 12th power, or a
thousand thousand thousand thousand.
• One trillion dollars would be enough to buy about a thousand boxes
of Girl Scout cookies for every person in the United States.
• A trillion barrels of oil would (at current consumption levels) fuel the
world for about 33 years.
• The country has not existed for a trillion seconds
• Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
• One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the
plains of Europe.
• 1,000 Thousands equals 1 Million (1,000,000); 1,000 Millions equals
1 Billion (1,000,000,000); and 1,000 Billions equals 1 Trillion
(1,000,000,000,000)
• A million dollars a day for 2 thousand years is only three quarters of a
trillion dollars.
• A million seconds is 11 ½ days, a billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion
seconds is 32 thousand years.
• One trillion one dollar bills stacked high would reach nearly 68
thousand miles into space, one third of the way to the moon.
• If you travel around the world at the equator 40 million times, you
would travel one trillion miles.
• Roughly 500,000 gallons fall over both sides of Niagara Falls each
second. One trillion gallons would equal the amount of water that falls
in a little over three weeks.