A million dollars may sound almost as good as a billion, but that’s only because the average person has no concept of the staggeringly vast difference between the two amounts. However, The New York Times breaks it down for us by using time as an example. “It would take almost 12 days for a million seconds to elapse and 31.7 years for a billion seconds,” according to a 1986 article. Yeah, that’s a BIG difference. On top of that, “a trillion seconds would amount to no less than 31,709.8 years.”
