r/AskReddit 5d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/ismelldirti 5d ago

Years worth of income

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u/duhogman 5d ago

If you made $100k per year that would put you at half way to being a billionaire. Kinda hurts to put that into perspective.

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u/vkapadia 5d ago

Scale is a hell of a thing.

Another way to see the huge difference between $1m and $1b:

Let's say you made $1/second (which is an insanely good salary, $3600/hr), and you earned this not just business hours, but 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Earning $1m would take you less than 12 days. Earning $1b would take you over 31 years.

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u/NSA_Chatbot 5d ago

Another way to see the huge difference between $1m and $1b:

If you take a meterstick and put $0 on one end, and a Billion on the other end, a million dollars is at 1mm.

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u/DaniTheLovebug 5d ago

And what is that in half giraffes

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u/memegwoddess 5d ago

dammit we need a bot

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u/Awesomealan1 4d ago

We’ll call it… Giraffe Math

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u/Walshy231231 4d ago

The average fully grown giraffe is about 4.9 m tall

Half of 4.9 m is 2.45 m

2.45 m divides into 1 mm 2450 times

2.45 m divides into 1 m 2.45 times

So if $0 was at 0, $1m would be at 1/2450 or 0.00040816 half giraffes, and $1b would be at 1/2.45 or .40816327 half giraffes

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u/pujastrankas 4d ago

This guy giraffes

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u/RedKhomet 4d ago

No no, this guy GIRAFFES

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u/Subjektzero 4d ago

Good bot

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u/Walshy231231 4d ago

I got the math worked out if someone knows how to get a bot made

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u/ReverendWolf 4d ago

americans will use anything but the metric system

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u/JackofScarlets 4d ago

Which half?

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u/PsychologicallyFat 4d ago

Asking the right questions

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u/Majestic-Marcus 4d ago

The front

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u/Avisari 4d ago

Didn't the front fall off?

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u/Jealy 4d ago

Yeah like, top to bottom, front to back, or side to side?

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u/Walshy231231 4d ago

$1m at 0.00040816 half giraffes, $1b at 0.40816327 half giraffes

If you prefer fractions, that’d be 1/2450 and 1/2.45 (or 20/49) half giraffes, respectively.

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u/CoffeeGoblynn 4d ago

The average giraffe is about 4.44 meters long. Expressed in millimeters, a half giraffe as a unit of measurement would be 2,220 millimeters. So I guess a half giraffe is like... 2.22 meters or 2.22 billionaires. So a millionaire is 1/2220 half giraffes.

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u/Addickt21 4d ago

Probably less than two

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u/hmm-bugger 4d ago

I think you mean long horses

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u/Zer0-Sum-Game 4d ago

Average of 2.4 meters for half giraffe conversion, though it depends on sex and genetics, so I'd think .4 milligiraffes

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u/kwakwakwak 4d ago

A million cats would probably be enough to take over your neighborhood. A billion cats would be enough to form a furry, meowing carpet that could blanket an entire small country.

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u/Embarrassed-Call7484 4d ago edited 4d ago

My favorite is Tom Scott's video about the difference between 1m and 1b.

https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg?si=Sr0cFiqcSuHRN1DQ 

I really miss Tom's weekly videos. If you haven't seen them before, check them out. Some really interesting stuff. 

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u/yotreeman 5d ago

This tells me nothing. Try football fields

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u/NSA_Chatbot 5d ago

Rhode Island is a million football fields.

America is 1.8 billion football fields.

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u/Autumn1eaves 4d ago

That still doesn’t help.

A football field is 360 feet.

If a football field is a billion, then a million is 5 inches long.

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u/Desaltez 5d ago

1 million is 1 football field.

1 billion is 1000 football fields.

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u/HiSpartacusImDad 4d ago

That’s still a bit hard to grasp. How about:

1 billion is a football field

1 million is a millifootball field

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u/Desaltez 4d ago

One million is the size of the football on the field One billion is the size of the football on 3 connected fields.

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u/Malhablada 4d ago

I get it, you're saying we're fucked.

The billionaires are the 49ers in Superbowl 24. Millionaires are the Broncos. And we're a single blade of grass nowhere near the fucking stadium.

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u/bobasasf 4d ago

fuck man, that hit

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u/Captn_Robmerica 4d ago

A million is 1 yard. A billion is the entire length of the field

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u/LawrenceFriday 4d ago

More than that. A billion is 10 football fields.

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u/uqde 4d ago

Holy shit, I've heard so many of these kinds of things but for some reason this one really hits for me. Dang.

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u/average_texas_guy 4d ago

Bro I'm American. GTFO with your meter stick. You need to explain this in Freedom Units.

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u/vkapadia 4d ago

If 1 million were 1 yard, 1 billion would be the length of the football fields of the AFC West, NFC East, and half the AFC North combined.

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u/NSA_Chatbot 4d ago

Yardstick, 3/64"

I also converted to football fields elsewhere.

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u/PvtPimple 4d ago

If 1 million is a touchdown, 1 billion would be 1000 touchdowns.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 4d ago

If you take a meterstick and put $0 on one end, and a Billion on the other end, a million dollars is at 1mm.

So what you’re saying is I can take 228.6 million dollars in my ass?

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u/NSA_Chatbot 4d ago

So what you’re saying is I can take 228.6 million dollars in my ass?

$228M is $228M.

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u/belleandbill25 4d ago

The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion

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u/tajwriggly 4d ago

I like this example. And OP said 5000 years worth of income. $100K is above average. 5000 years of above average income only takes you halfway up the meterstick. And the top 10 billionaires in the world are all worth over $100B, which means that their worth is over 100 m high, or roughly a 30 story building.

5000 years of above average wealth, measured in Millions of dollars per mm, only takes you to about the height of your knees, while the world's richest individuals are looking down at you from the tops of 30 story buildings.

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u/bruce_wayne23 3d ago

Lets send a few hundred metersticks to other countries

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u/Geminii27 4d ago

Imagine something one inch in size which costs sixteen thousand dollars. Holy crap that's expensive! That's in ultra-custom-jewelry territory! In some jobs that's an annual salary!

A billion dollars is a MILE of those.

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u/CrowOne5787 4d ago

I think i get it! I'm never supposed to get it.

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u/AssistanceCheap379 4d ago

For the Yankees, that’s about 1/32nd of an inch on a yardstick

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u/poop-dolla 4d ago

Can you translate for the Americans?