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We have been hearing about the quantity trillion a lot lately. This is such a large number, it is hard to put into context. The U.S. budget deficit is projected to be $1.8 trillion this year and President Obama has submitted a $3.4 trillion budget for the year 2010.
Here are some calculations I have done to put the number 1 trillion into context.
If you placed 1 trillion one-dollar bills end to end, they would stretch 96.31 million miles. That is the distance from the earth to the sun.
1 trillion is 3.3 times as many stars contained in our entire galaxy.
1 million seconds = 11.5 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31, 710 years
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