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05/12/2003 Archived Entry: "A BILLION IS A NUMBER TO PONDER"

"A BILLION" IS A NUMBER TO PONDER

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that
figure into perspective in one of its releases:

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.