So, Just How Big is One Billion?
posted December 7th, 2007 by Shannon
When I was one thousand seconds old, I was being weighed for the first time.
When I was one million seconds old, I was still sleeping most of the day.
When I was one billion seconds old, I was married with 3 kiddos.
Wow. Happy One-Billion-Seconds-Old Birthday to Me!!!!
(1,000 seconds is roughly 16 minutes. 1,000,000 seconds is about 11 days. 1,000,000,000 seconds is somewhere in the neighborhood of 31 years and 8.5 months.)
Filed under: Interesting on December 7th, 2007
I can’t believe that I missed my 1,000,000,000 second celebration. Now why in the world did you figure that out?
My the way, I just did the math on my calculator and you are correct. Did you though take into account leap years?
Time is precious. One day, your wife tells you that she is pregnant. Soon, you have a new person in the family. Just a few days later, that baby heads off to kindergarten. After a couple of weeks, that baby graduates from college, gets married and then has babies of her own. My goodness, where did time go? So, happy belated billionth. love, dad
Why did I figure it out? It was part of the Ruby tutorial I was going through a few weeks ago. So, yes, the leap years were accounted for.
Thanks for the sweet note, Dad. Time is certainly precious. Only it’s hard to remember that sometimes, isn’t it?
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