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There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day. Since 60 X 60 X 24 = 86.400, it means that there are 86.400 seconds in a day and so a week has 7 times more, this is, 604.800 seconds.

Let’s make the operation 1.000.000 - 604.800 = 395.200. It means that 1 million seconds corresponds to a week and there are still 395.200 seconds left.

The following time measurement unit is the day, which has 86.400 seconds. Through a division, we will notice that in 395.200 there are more than 4 days but less than 5 and if we keep on with the subtraction we can subtract 4 whole days to the seconds left. So, 395.200 - 4 X 86.400 = 49.600. Well, we have reached 1 week and 4 days and we still have 49.600 seconds left.

If we keep on subtracting concerning the hours (3600 seconds) and the minutes (60 seconds), we will get 1 week, 4 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds. And this is the answer for the question that has been asked before.

Out of curiosity you could take notice that our numeration uses the base 10 and that’s why, for instance, the number 45.203 is equivalent to `4 xx 10^4 + 5 xx 10^3 + 2 xx 10^2 + 0 xx 10^1 + 3 xx 10^0`  .

You can also notice that 1:4:13:46:40 can be written according to a “strange” base with multiples of 7, 24 and 60 and so it corresponds to `1 xx 60^2 xx 24 xx 7 + 4 xx 60^2 xx 24 + 13 xx 60^2 + 46 xx 60^1 + 40 xx 60^0`  , which corresponds to 1.000.000 seconds.

A million is 106, or 1,000,000. A billion is one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (109). This is the common usage in English-speaking countries and is called the short scale. Countries in continental Europe and Latin America use the long scale where a billion is a million millions (1012).

The word billion originated from French word bi- (“two”) + -illion; i.e. a million million. It was first coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as by-million and then rendered as byllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484.

Million originated from the Italian milione, from the Latin mille + the augmentative suffix -one.

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Magnitude of the difference

The magnitude of difference between billion and million can be illustrated with this example of the time scale:

Most people are lousy with numbers. Especially big ones. Numbers like millions, billions or trillions are simply hazy notions of REALLY big numbers for most people. Add a dollar sign in front and you may actually see their eyes glaze over.

Unless you put those numbers in terms they understand.

For example, everybody knows that a minute is 60 seconds, and they have a good sense of how long a second lasts. What they don’t understand is if you started a timer, one million seconds would take over a week and a half to elapse. Surprised? Then consider this: one billion seconds would take almost 32 years, and one trillion seconds would take 31,688 years (and you would have had to start that timer back in 29,673 B.C.)

While some numbers are too big to comprehend, others don’t seem big enough for people to care.

For example:

• If the average car loan refinance meant a savings of $20/month, most people wouldn’t bother. Point out that saving $20 every month means saving almost $1000 over the next 4 years, and all of a sudden you have their attention.
• A small percentage change on a mortgage doesn’t sound very exciting. However, a $50 lower monthly payment means an extra $3000 every 5 years of the loan. Now that’s a big number that might make your members smile.
• For a member that never has enough money, one less fancy coffee a day adds up to about $1000 in one year.

When numbers are based on real life experiences, people understand.

When a credit union puts the advantages of CU products in $$ instead of %’s, members respond.

It’s simply a matter of communicating on the same level.

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