“Mortgage debt in the UK is nearly a trillion pounds while computers can store terabytes … So what does a trillion look like? … compare a million to a trillion by placing a credit card next to Ben Nevis … Then again you can illustrate the scale of this number by comparing the fact that a million seconds equals 11.5 days, a billion seconds is 32 years and a trillion is 32,000 years. “

A fascinating look at what a trillion actually means. From BBC News, here.

Posted Monday, May 7th, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
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