How Large is a Trillion?

• 1 Kilobyte  = 103   = 1000 bytes
• 1 Megabyte = 106   = 1,000,000 bytes
• 1 Gigabyte = 109   = 1,000,000,000 bytes
• 1 Terabyte = 1012  = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
• 1 Petabyte = 1015  = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
• 1 million seconds  = 11.57 days
• 1 billion seconds = 31.6 years
• 1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
• 1 million inches     = 15.7 miles
• 1 trillion  inches     = 15,700,000 miles  (30 roundtrips to the moon)
• 1 million square inches = .16 acres = .0002 square miles
• 1 trillion square inches = 249 square miles   (larger than Singapore)
• $1 million =   < $ .01 for every person in U.S.
• $1 billion =   $  3.64 for every person is U.S.
• $1 trillion =   $ 3,636 for every person in U.S.