Today I Found Out

How Long Would It Take to Count to a Billion and What’s the Highest Anyone Has Counted? (2017x161)

Air date: Jul 02, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare→’s most basic skills and something most humans are quite adept at. Despite most of us being experts on the subject, theoretically capable of counting infinitely high with the ceiling bounded only by available time and how good we are at staving off psychosis, few can accurately guess how long it would take to count to a million, let alone a billion. This is largely owing to the fact that our brains have an amazing amount of difficulty conceptualizing such large numbers. This all brings us to the question of the hour- just how long would it take to count to a million or a billion? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/05/long-take-count-billion/ Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTqlKLsYEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqCC2PVNcA http://www.npr.org/sections/bryantpark/2007/09/jeremy_harper_counts_to_a_mill_1.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16548170 http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/01/19/you-could-probably-break-the-worlds-record-for-counting-to-highest-number-in-history/ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67539-fastest-recital-of-hamlets-soliloquy http://davidschwartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MMAB-06-CountingToOneMillion.pdf https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_kVn7WSkSxEC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=counting+to+a+million+23+days&source=bl&ots=ceM9gLIxDW&sig=Aliaa7c5R0mXoXLDTzARAn0Uaa0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2qr-RhuTTAhVKEVAKHVk9BX0Q6AEIVDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YSP_ydeC0VEC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=counting+to+a+million+23+days&source=bl&ots=oeuw9Rieyk&sig=AmGURJQU7rRKzUWzVtoRNuYRoSo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2qr-RhuTTAhVKEVAKHVk9BX0Q6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=counting%20to%20a%20million%2023%20days&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Woodmore Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-126245102/stock-photo-thinking-child-deep-in-thought-concept-for-confusion%