Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it’s still hard to grasp just how much a “billion” really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: “What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?”
—The MegaPenny ProjectKokogiak)
Wow… extremely entertaining to move gradually from a familiar scale to a gigantic one. When does your brain boggle?
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