How long will it take to count to 100000000000000000000000000?

Answer 1

31709791983764586.504312531709792 years
if you count one figure per second

Answer 2

How many zeros?

For a person to actually count it out in words, nonstop, without missing any, without taking a breath, and without stumbling, it would take approximately... 100000000000000000000000000 times 7.12 seconds, or about 22,562,400,472,523,552,004 years. By then, the world will have ended. Accounting all the breathing, stumbling, and stopping, it would take approximately three times a long, or about 67,687,201,417,570,656,012 years.

Now, for a computer, it would take much less time, considering that a computer can work nonstop, without breathing or stumbling. Assuming that the computer has enough bits in the processor to hold the immensely large number in question (67, to be exact. A 64-bit processor would take about 1.87 times as long, and a 32-bit processor would take about 2.87 times as long), and if it worked at 1 GHz (1,000,000,000 pulses per second), it would take 100,000,000,000 seconds, or about 3,169 years. Still a pretty long time, but much shorter than if done manually.

Answer 3

1000000000000000000000000 seconds=
11415525114155251141.552511415525 days
I divided the first number by 24hrs/day*60 minutes/hour*60 seconds/minute=87,600 seconds/day to arrive at that number.
I will divide the number of days by 365.25. There is an extra day
every leap year, so I took the average number of days in a 4 year span, which is 365.25. The number I get is:
31254004419316224.891314199631828 years, which is an
approximation of how long it will take or
31, 254, 004, 419, 316, 224.891314199631828 years. I'm not sure how long that is in terms of years, but I'm guessing it is longer than human existence for sure.

Answer 4

OK....

Lets start (somewhere) with the premise that a person can count to one hundred in English in a single minute. After counting to that number, this person would have to say the words "one hundred", or "two hundred"...up to one thousand. Assume each iteration took 1/2 second.

Thus counting to one thousand would require 10 x 1 minute plus 900 times 1/2 second. To count to one thousand, it requires:

600 + 450 seconds, or 1050 seconds, or about 17.5 minutes.

To count to one million, a person would have to count to one thousand, one thousand times plus say "thousand" 999 times (lets say a half second each). The person will also have to count again to one hundred (for each "thousand") 9 times at one minute each:

(1050 x 1000) + (999 x 1/2) + (999 x 9 x 60) = 15899959.5 seconds = 26499.325 minutes = 441.655 hours.

OK...time to be fair to this person. Let us assume that they get 7 hours sleep each night, and spend an hour each day eating and drinking water. At 16 hours per day, a person can count to a million in 27.6 days.

After that we can assume the person will a say "million" a million times for each million counted (1,000,000 x 1/2 second = 8.6 waking days).

So...on average, every new million will be encountered every 36 days after the first, and the first Billion will be encountered in about ten years.

Because this person would have to say "billion" (another half second) a million times for each subsequent million, the second billion would not be reached until 10 years + 8600 days = 33.5 years.

Thus, our poor, dedicated but worthless soul, after counting 77 years, will have counted to 3 billion (give or take).

My computer can do that every second.

Answer 5

That depends on the units you are counting by - for example by one's, or by two's, or ten's of thousands, or millions, billions, trillions... etc.
The amount of time required for your count will vary depending on how you count as well.

Answer 6

But for example, how fast can you say "one" compared to "two hundred seventy two quintillion nine billion five hundred seventy five million six hundred thousand thirty one?"

Answer 7

it will take 315,360,000,000,000,000 yrs, if you can do 3 numbers per sec. and dont need to eat or sleep

Answer 8

49457602783495027859047829 seconds!
thats more than a century
i think

Answer 9

I don't know. But why don't YOU go ahead and try it and get back to us and let us know how it went for ya, 'kay???

Answer 10

a lot