How big is 1 billion?

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[gregariousity]

Can't wait for the trillion second episode, literally.

[mrfancyshmancy]

1 billion is at least bigger than 5, i think

[Whizzer]

That circle on the Amazon forest looks like it would fit many more than 390 times.

[daniellassander]

I wonder how far the average hunter gatherer tribe used to walk a day before agriculture and stuff. How many steps a day on average.

[ProjectPhysX]

What blows me away is how Billion has become a common number for computers. Single chips have 10-100 Billion transistors, switching 2-5 Billion times per second. 1GB is 8 Billion ones and zeroes. I can do fluid simulations with several Billion grid cells in a couple hours, and a single GPU will happily process some 5-35 Billion crid cells every single second.

And sool computers will enter the Trillion age. A trillion transistors, trillion Bytes of memory, except clock frequency which physically cannot go much further than GHz.

[skyscraperfan]

4:43 That circle is much smaller than 1/390 of the Amazon Forest. If instead of a circle, you would take the same shape as the Amazon Forest, it would be scaled by a factor of roughly 1/20.

[poochycosme]

4:36 isn't this circle too small ? if it's 1/400 of the amazon forest, it means that a square of 20 by 20 of these circles would cover the whole forest and that doesn't seem to be the case visually

[jerrysstories]

An easy visualization: Get a meter stick with millimeter markings. You can see 1000 right there. Now imagine drawing a square 1m x 1m and drawing the 1mm gridlines across it, and you'll have 1, 000, 000 squares on a paper you could fit on a work table. So if you had a 1m x 1m x 1m cube and cut it carefully on all 3 axes into 1mm layers, you'd have 1, 000, 000, 000 little cubes that you could easily fit into your shower.

[thatguyyouis]

Im willing but not able to walk 1 billion steps 😂

[johnchessant]

Zach turned 1 billion seconds old on June 18, 2024. On that day he uploaded "When it's your first day as a hitman" on the other channel

[santh]

3:27 Assuming the plane can survive in outer space, It will take much less time cause its speed would be much higher than it is on earth. If we were to say "at the speed of a commercial plane", It would check out.

[greenmarble]

There is no reality in which that circle is 1/400th of the total area. 1/400th length mabye, but not area

[tamptus]

Why billion is in US-english 10′′9 in other Languages spain, frensh, german it is 10^12 bi - million mean million times million.

[UndefinedFantasticCat]

6:06 how (grand)parents describe their short morning walk to school

[davethesid]

As a Hungarian, I thank you for including us in the video!

[wompastompa]

So with a bilion people, you could have four stacks of people holding up the moon like in Majora's Mask.

[Randinator]

I’ll be one billion seconds old in October.

[chitlitlah]

I converted my age to metric a few months ago out of curiosity. Right now, I'm about 1.37 gigaseconds old.

[IvanPompa-lriy]

Being a Spanish speaker, we dont call this a billion, but a thousand million. One billion for us is like a trillion for you, which is way bigger

[aadityagupta]

2:31 when that plane came out in front of that tower.. 😱