r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 7d ago

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

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u/vkapadia 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

And what is that in half giraffes

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u/Walshy231231 6d 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.