Innumeracy, continued.

Here's a reminder of what one million is.

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If it takes 6 seconds for you to say each line (reasonable), that's 10 minutes just for you to say what a million is in thousands. 

It's the same amount of time with millions for a billion. Millions.

If you were still reading it in thousands, that's 16 2/3 hours.

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