Number Freaking
What is the next date in this series?
A few weeks ago, on March 3, everyone was excited about the date being a math problem. 3/3/2009 is the same as 3/3/09 if you ignore the first two digits of the year, and 3*3=9. Pretty cool, huh?
But here is a more interesting series:
October 3, 1000
February 10, 1024
April 5, 1024
June 4, 1296
November 3, [...]
How much is interest on a trillion dollars, anyway?
Yesterday I did some number freaking on the subject of one trillion dollars.
Today I want to expand that a little further, to show how truly massive that number is.
One of the things we discussed yesterday was that you could have spent $1 million every single day since Jesus was born, and still not have spent [...]
How much is a trillion anyway?
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose the awe I first felt when I heard the number “one trillion.” The number has been thrown around so much with the stimulus plan, various bailouts, etc. that it is easy to forget how large that number truly is. Let’s see it written [...]