Stumbled upon a really cool site that must be shared!
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?”
A trillion (1,000,000,000,000) pennies, for instance, stacked on top of each other would look like this (in comparison with the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower in Chicago):
Fascinated? Then go here.
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