How big is 1 billion?

[@gregariousity]

Can't wait for the trillion second episode, literally.

[@greatleader4841]

hopefully your great great great grandkids can enjoy it.

[@AryanMahajan-zz4ro]

@@greatleader4841 hopefully your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand kids enjoy it. 31 greats = 32 generations and having a lifetime average of 100 years due to medicine improvements which is more accurate

[@olencone4005]

It's just a 31,688 year wait... no biggie! :P

[@lokan_kuru8721]

about 31, 700 years in the future get your immortality potions ready

[@CaptainBlitz]

💀

[@mrfancyshmancy]

1 billion is at least bigger than 5, i think

[@roy11gg]

Nah bro, 5 is a pretty big number already

[@kezzyhko]

@@roy11gg you know how it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, many

[@lukapetrovic412]

I don't know, I get lost at 4 Five is next right?

[@roy11gg]

@@lukapetrovic412 wtf is even 4?

[@mfn1311]

HOLY FUCK YOU’RE RIGHT

[@daniellassander]

I wonder how far the average hunter gatherer tribe used to walk a day before agriculture and stuff. How many steps a day on average.

[@TheWolfgangGrimmer]

I'd love to know as well.

[@jimi02468]

I'm pretty sure that there is at least one person out there who has walked one billion steps (or run if running steps count). What about those hardcore Kenyan marathon runners for example.

[@gamingforfun8662]

378,787.8787 total miles The equator's circumference = 24,792.5 miles 378,787.8787 (total miles) divided by 24,792.5 (miles around the equator) = 15.278 times around the equator!

[@lonestarr1490]

Anatomically, the human is capable of walking 40 to 50 km a day -- on predominantly flat terrain and without carrying heavy loads. But we would be able to do it every day without resting for Sundays or so. Since I'm no steps-a-day enthusiast, I have no idea how many steps that are. But: even in ye olden days nomadic tribes wouldn't have walked that much. Because why would they? If they reach a place where food is plenty, they would probably stay in that area for longer.

[@daniellassander]

@@lonestarr1490 You do realize they were following herds of animals right?

[@skyscraperfan]

4:43 That circle is much smaller than 1/390 of the Amazon Forest. If instead of a circle, you would take the same shape as the Amazon Forest, it would be scaled by a factor of roughly 1/20.

[@Whizzer]

That circle on the Amazon forest looks like it would fit many more than 390 times.

[@davethesid8960]

I think he did calculate it carefully, sizes to the human eye can be deceiving.

[@ttoorop1164]

@@davethesid8960 It's incorrect. I took a screenshot and the dot is like 10x10 pixels. The bounding box of the rainforest is about 1350x950. That dot would fit on the order of 10000 times in that box. Even if the rainforest was half the bounding box it would still be an order of magnitude off.

[@Chazulu2]

​@@ttoorop1164They did the math.

[@Poochyvert]

4:36 isn't this circle too small ? if it's 1/400 of the amazon forest, it means that a square of 20 by 20 of these circles would cover the whole forest and that doesn't seem to be the case visually

[@PaulMutser]

Yeah it looks like he did 1/400 of the width

[@ProjectPhysX]

What blows me away is how Billion has become a common number for computers. Single chips have 10-100 Billion transistors, switching 2-5 Billion times per second. 1GB is 8 Billion ones and zeroes. I can do fluid simulations with several Billion grid cells in a couple hours, and a single GPU will happily process some 5-35 Billion crid cells every single second. And sool computers will enter the Trillion age. A trillion transistors, trillion Bytes of memory, except clock frequency which physically cannot go much further than GHz.

[@goodfortunetoyou]

and yet for some reason, a spreadsheet that only does like 5 lines of basic math takes like a minute to load.

[@periodictable118]

we've already hit 1 trillion with the vast majority of solid state and hard disk memory storage

[@SiMeGamer]

​@@goodfortunetoyouthat's likely because you are using a windows machine which has incredibly slow processes for various reasons and if you are using a browser (if you use something like Google Sheets) then there are several more layers of unoptimized code. There have been plenty of demonstrations that if you bypass certain limitations of the base operating system and simply run the code raw (talk directly to the hardware) you could run things at such speeds that it would actually feel bad to use because you've been naturally accustomed to the current delay that exists in everything. KZbin in the past two years has become slower at loading things for me despite having much better hardware and extremely fast internet speed - that's because they do so much unnecessary crap that has nothing to do with serving video and even that could probably be heavily optimized. I hope some year soon we will get some changes in the industry from hardware manufacturers and operating system vendors to languages to tools so that there are no excuses for us to not maximize the value of these absolutely incredible machines, that as you say sometimes barely render a tiny spreadsheet on the screen.

[@Chazulu2]

KZbin servers store Petabytes.... and they still want to delete my 36500 photos at most of data per 100 years of lifetime Google maps route logs (text files) of my biography... Stupidest company on this side of the Milky Way, 100%.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Why can't clock frequency increase much. Also, I guess that means that European computers will soon enter the 'billion age'?

[@jerrysstories711]

An easy visualization: Get a meter stick with millimeter markings. You can see 1000 right there. Now imagine drawing a square 1m x 1m and drawing the 1mm gridlines across it, and you'll have 1,000,000 squares on a paper you could fit on a work table. So if you had a 1m x 1m x 1m cube and cut it carefully on all 3 axes into 1mm layers, you'd have 1,000,000,000 little cubes that you could easily fit into your shower.

[@lonestarr1490]

Thanks, mate. I really struggled to figure out how to get those cubes into my shower.

[@periodictable118]

similarly 1 billion meter blocks will fit in a cube with side length 1 km

[@jbtechcon7434]

@@periodictable118 I cant visualize a 1km cube tho

[@lonestarr1490]

@@jbtechcon7434 The Saudis will have you covered eventually.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Even in the long scale, the grains would still be wider than the width of a human hair

[@davethesid8960]

As a Hungarian, I thank you for including us in the video!

[@powertower2297]

i never knew that you made educational videos, im so glad i found this side of you. these videos are great

[@johnchessant3012]

Zach turned 1 billion seconds old on June 18, 2024. On that day he uploaded "When it's your first day as a hitman" on the other channel

[@Leyrann]

Did you take into account leap days?

[@DeemIsTaken]

ZACH IS 31!?

[@lonestarr1490]

Ikr. He's so much younger than me. And even younger than my younger brother. I feel old now.

[@vdinh143]

How is he younger than me??

[@pushupguylol]

I thought he was 50

[@Anonymous-df8it]

r/unexpectedfactorial

[@dreamcore7]

​@@pushupguylol 50? How old are you 14? At best I thought he was in his mid/late 30s. Not even close to reaching 50s?

[@greenmarble638]

There is no reality in which that circle is 1/400th of the total area. 1/400th length mabye, but not area

[@voltmatrix1250]

5:54 Nah, didn’t Mansa Musa have a net worth of like 500 billion?

[@san4th]

3:27 Assuming the plane can survive in outer space, It will take much less time cause its speed would be much higher than it is on earth. If we were to say "at the speed of a commercial plane", It would check out.

[@UndefinedFantasticCat]

6:06 how (grand)parents describe their short morning walk to school

[@HesderOleh]

1 billion weeks ago is 19.2 Million Years Ago - During the early Miocene era, about 19 million years ago, Antarctica’s ice sheets underwent rapid and frequent growth and recession, posing a potential parallel to Earth’s future climate trajectory if current carbon emission trends persist. 1 billion months ago is 83 million years ago is when the first primates evolved according to genetic studies which show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period.

[@ikarder]

Thank you for your videos, i'm so glad somebody can be so smart and also good in humor, this is somehow inspiring

[@thatguyyouis]

Im willing but not able to walk 1 billion steps 😂

[@anawsmperson]

That ad placement lol!

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Now, repeat this with the long-scale billion!

[@chitlitlah]

I converted my age to metric a few months ago out of curiosity. Right now, I'm about 1.37 gigaseconds old.

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

3:15 what if I only managed to dug 999,999,999 or 1,000,000,001 grains of sand? Does it count?

[@geraldmerkowitz4360]

Thanks for the reminder, December 14th for me, got it I celebrated my 10000th day a few years back, never managed to gather so many people at a party. Everyone thought the idea was stupid, so they loved it, and everyone came.

[@tannereustace]

Thanks for making this video, I now have many more fun facts for thanksgiving dinner!

[@marcberm]

For videos like this that are heavy in custom animations, do you do them yourself or outsource? I imagine it's not something that would always even be financially advantagous to outsource.

[@Exkajer]

You could start from deifining what a Billion is because it is different for different countries. For me, billion is 1 000 000 000 000.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

The convention being used in the video defines a billion as 10^9, though a follow-up video with the other (arguably more logical) convention that you brought up would be interesting

[@Snoozingtonn]

...Is that Zach Star Himself... Bro I thought he was just skits!?

[@LilW1nky]

I love videos like this and it really fascinates my kids too

[@wompastompa3692]

So with a bilion people, you could have four stacks of people holding up the moon like in Majora's Mask.

[@fede22081]

Happy belated birthday Zach 😊

[@jaikumar848]

Hi Zach ! For a function f(t) If a laplace transform of that function F(s) have a pole in right half s plane ,then does it always means atleast one value of f(t) is surely touching to infinity?

[@n-hexane8271]

bhai read the room.

[@christossymA3A2]

yes , because the inverse laplace of the pole will give you an exponential with positive exponent exp(at) a>0, which as t --> Inf will touch to infinity .

[@jaikumar848]

@@n-hexane8271 kya matlab?

[@christopherellis2663]

A million squared

[@Fanhalo]

Im guessing a little over 25

[@Randinator]

I’ll be one billion seconds old in October.

[@claytonhill936]

@6:00 Forrest Gump: "hold my box of chocolates."

[@finite1731]

Man, I did a unit error for my estimate of no. Trees accidently went from m to km so: (10m)^2 per tree, I guessed, therefore (10^5m)^2 for a billion but I changed the units to km (in my head fyi) so got (10^5km)^2 so guessed the entire screen 😅 (I'm writing (xm)^2 instead of xm^2 because I was using side lengths not areas so to get to an area from the side length tou square everything)

[@BonScott1995]

"No one will reach 1 bilion steps" David Goggins: You dont know me son!

[@JoeBob79569]

I don't know whether to feel relieved that 1 billion trees is such a tiny part of the Amazon, or scared that humans cut down about 15 billion trees per year. But another interesting stat I like is that if every human had a little spaceship and we could travel freely around the galaxy, then we could each visit about 10-15 stars and we would have visited every star in the galaxy.

[@arcover3280]

Enough lions to beat one of every pokemon

[@tylerschofield]

Wait, the dutch east india company definitely was before american steel. Not only was it literally centuries before, it was one of the first companies to be worth over a trillion dollars (over 7 trillion in fact at its height). Not only that but both the british and the french also had companies back then doing similar things and worth similar amounts. Oh and the dutch one was also the first publicly traded company, with like stocks and stuff. Rockerfella also wasnt the first billionaire. Unless of course you mean the first American company and person to be worth over a billion??

[@johnchessant3012]

Fun fact: If you have one billion dollars, then assuming 3% annual inflation you can spend one dollar per second forever (since due to inflation the amount of stuff a dollar can buy decays exponentially)

[@PrometheusMMIV]

Forever? You would run out after one billion seconds, which is about 31 years according to this video. And it would be even faster than that if you kept buying the same item as its price adjusted to inflation.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@PrometheusMMIV In this case, you'd be getting money for a billion dollars' worth of stuff, not buying stuff with a billion dollars

[@PrometheusMMIV]

@@Anonymous-df8it That's not what it says though. It says "if you have one billion dollars"

[@0xphk]

Where I come from, at 1 Billion seconds I would be ~31709 years old ;) Maybe worth to note that there are countries with another scale used.

[@tamptus3479]

Why billion is in US-english 10′′9 in other Languages spain, frensh, german it is 10^12 bi - million mean million times million.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Apparently, it was the same in the UK, until they switched over because the short scale was the international (read: American) meaning! Yay for Americanisms!

[@fmlghm420]

If you work as a spider (bringing parts to and from lines) in a warehouse you can hit 1 billion steps just under than 80 years. I averaged about 40 thousand steps a night in an 8hr shift

[@CyanSandwich]

I feel like some lifelong distance runners could hit a billion steps (if running counts)

[@LightningSt0rm]

They could not. Remember, the number he stated would need to be hit on average EVERY day of their life with no misses. Including the day they were born and every day of their infancy and every holiday and every sick day and every day of their old age. And given that's not possible they'd have to get a LOT more to make up those missed days.

[@ze0r59b9]

Imagine 1 billion beers right now

[@lonestarr1490]

I just had one, so I should be able to [forgot the word] from there.

[@lonestarr1490]

Interpolate! That's the word. Man, I'm really no good at handling beer..

[@lonestarr1490]

No, it wasn't. Extrapolate! That is the word. No more beer for me.

[@ADA_BTC]

this was awesome

[@brianthesnail3815]

In my job I talk about sums of money that start at $1 billion. My job is to advise my colleagues as none of them are experienced in finance, but in simple terms I talk to them about investments. One of my younger colleagues told me that when she hears me talk she feels frightened because I talk in large numbers she can't imagine.

[@1234567Aesop]

Oh shit, I just turned 1 billion too. This was also the first video of yours that youtube notified me about hmm

[@Chazulu2]

One billion years from now the Earth will probably still be habitable and habitated... we'll want to do solar scale engineering projects way way before that. Like 0.0001% of that time maybe to sequester all of the CO2 so that a Dyson sphere or a leo energy concentration mirror array can send back low entropy and highly useful energy to a steam generator or similar on Earth. Mystery of stellar engineering makes planetary issues somewhat trivial, especially since you need to figure out cooling for both anyways. Reguardless, all of the useful stellar engineering projects make the sun burn cooler and last longer. Sometimes much longer. Could also get a second star out of the process if you use Jupiter to pull gasses off of the sun (the outer sun is less dense because of fusion and heat, especially during solar flares when gas can be pulled off). "Building a Dyson sphere will cast a shadow on Earth" is what I could have said instead, but the above is a more technically accurate prediction IMO. Earth will be fine as long as society doesn't keep trashing everything it touches... just saying.

[@SwordTomato]

haha

[@dogsareawesome9197]

I didnt know you made big brain smart videos, sick

[@kangmoabel]

Your fan from Ethiopia 😢😢

[@L17_8]

Jesus loves you ❤️

[@niklas7593]

Bigger than 1 aillion but smaller than 1 cillion?

[@methodius1318]

You could hide all the 1$ bills in 100 walk-in closets

[@vdinh143]

I just want to draw your attention to the video about how long 1b dollars would be (by Tom Scott) for a perspective on social issues.

[@danser_theplayer01]

That feller was rocking some cold hard cash.

[@Savahax]

Thank you Mr. Stargenski! Awesome vid Edit: 4:58 - 13! equals 6.2 billion though? You're right in saying "over a billion" but 88 quintillion is also over a billion 😅

[@FizzyToni]

He basically said 12! < 1 b < 13!

[@kingmaple9252]

“So god, does that mean I’ll never walk a billion steps? “I get it’s sad, but hey, I don’t make the rules!” “YES YOU DO”

[@bencross3759]

More trees on earth than stars in the galaxy something like 3 trillion!

[@IvanPompa-lr7iy]

Being a Spanish speaker, we dont call this a billion, but a thousand million. One billion for us is like a trillion for you, which is way bigger

[@Anonymous-df8it]

Apparently, it was the same in the UK, until they switched over because the short scale was the international (read: American) meaning! Yay for Americanisms!

[@Drugs_Explained]

I don't have a Billion $. 😢

[@PineCone227_]

Is this an AI-generated thumbnail?

[@kingofgoldnessr9364]

Mathematicians and engineers aren't really known for their appreciation of visual art made by real people

[@divyangvaidya1999]

Nice topic.

[@Ircrel]

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[@AwestrikeFearofGods]

An easy way to visualize large numbers is as subdivided cubes: 27 = 3^3 (appearing like a Rubik's Cube) 1,000 = 10^3 1,000,000 = 100^3 1,000,000,000 = 1000^3

[@kleckerklotz9620]

Yeah, really good to imagine a cube 1000 meters high, wide and long... 🤨 I'd say time is better to imagine. Since everybody feels it in a very direct manner. 1,000s = 16min 40s 1,000,000s = 11days 13h 46min 40s 1,000,000,000s = 31years 259d 1h 46min 40s

[@AwestrikeFearofGods]

@@kleckerklotz9620 Who said anything about meters? Imagine a line of sand 1000 grains long, then cube it. Voila, 1 billion grains of sand.

[@HesderOleh]

a rubick's cube individual cubes are 19 mm x 19mm x 19 mm. So for 1,000 cubes that is only a 19 cm cube 1,000,000 is 1.9 meters, slightly taller than the average male adult. 1,000,000,000 is 19 meters, that is already getting quite big Then for 1,000,000,000,000 you are at 190 meters which is already more than city blocks in most cities

[@AwestrikeFearofGods]

@@HesderOleh Rubik’s Cube was only for the 3^3 example. The general case was a “subdivided cube” of unspecified dimensions.

[@HesderOleh]

@@AwestrikeFearofGods it helps to have some scale invariance sometimes, especially when translating orders of magnitude to the human brain

[@HaroldtheGuy-u6m]

3’s a crowd

[@nikospitr]

imo the most mind boggling is the examples that compare linear with square or cube arrays. e.g 1 billion people side by side would go around earth ~10 times, but in a square they all fit in an area like the Seattle. Mind boggling, really.

[@luisfilipe2023]

Yep the power of squares and cubes is mind blowing that’s why all of that sand and money fit in those containers and why 400 billion trees fit in 20% of a continent

[@zanedia4554]

Damn 😖 Ill never catch up to what she told me about him

[@dr_volberg]

That claim about the EU is somewhat dubious. It might be technically correct in terms of the Maastricht Treaty being signed, but the EU started already back in 1958.

[@FizzyToni]

The European Union was formally established when the Maastricht Treaty was signed, in 1993.

[@Melvin-nt9xu]

The difference between a million and a billion seconds is insane

[@aadityagupta250]

2:31 when that plane came out in front of that tower.. 😱

[@-ZH]

You guys are averaging 7.4k steps a day?

[@Dyanosis]

I'm that guy - 4 times farther than the moon. It's a distance. Further is for ideas or farther is for physical distance.

[@gigaforce5644]

How do u animate to make your videos?

[@Nisaisgoingcrazy]

Hi, there! I'm a collage student in the department of Machine Eng. and i just started to follow your videos :) english is not my native lang so can you add subt. in your videos to improve my learning. Thanks a lot! :)

[@jake1350ol]

amazon circle is a bit off, but else, video is really great and informative

[@esshor.]

Oh wow. I would’ve thought you were older

[@ramteja1550]

Man I always get scared of the solar systems facts where the earth is gonna die, reminds me of interstellar

[@methodius1318]

What I learned from this is that a walk-in closet is 1% the volume of a 2 story home

[@kylebowles9820]

...so just Seattle then lol

[@book19118]

Make a video on DFT and FFT please

[@streettrialsandstuff]

So if I'd get one dollar per second I'd need 31 years to get to 1 billion 😮

[@PawelGuzowski]

Mate, a regular commercial plane can’t fly to Saturn. It needs atmosphere all the way there

[@ThatsNotAB]

Dude one billion. That’s like. More than 8 wth

[@chixenlegjo]

It’s gotta be like at least 1000000000, right?

[@TommySanders-tp3ob]

So basically life is short, as hell

[@Kaviranghari]

400 billion???

[@pedroanitelli]

"The Amazon contains almost 400 billion trees" For now =/

[@rqlk]

If you drove 55 mph 24/7 it would take you over 2000 years to travel 1 billion miles

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

I was told from a NASA study that there were only 10 billion trees - what a relief this video is.

[@Leetdevs]

1 billion forests, not trees, there are 3 trillion trees

[@Savahax]

Nah there's a LOT more trees mate

[@peterg76yt]

But we need to see the video of the person who invented one billion.

[@3gou]

Bro forgot to include my IQ in this video, RIP

[@jimi02468]

So 14 square meters for one tree

[@esshor.]

It’s why I totally agree with Bernie sanders…. No one can ethically be a billionaire

[@BananaWasTaken]

What’s the difference between 1 billion and 1 million? About a billion.

[@ericspianoschool]

Learn by doing. Nice 😂

[@DeSeGas]

and then?

[@harrywang3098]

I was hoping to build my mansion out of pennies once I become a millionaire but I guess I'll have to be a billionaire

[@Smallpriest]

Wait why is 1 billion years ≈ 1 billion years 😂