What's a bigger number? The # of seconds in 100 years or the # of sq. inches in a sq. mile?

Question

You may be surprised by the answer...

Answer 1

100 Years = 3,153,600,000 sec
100 mi^2.. = 4,014,489,600 in^2

Another bit of trivia:

There are more nanoseconds in 1 second than there are seconds in more than 30 years.

Now, consider 1 clock tick on a 1GHz CPU to be 1 human second, and it takes about 33 ms to send a key press. How long is that in human time?

33 ms h time = (33 x 10^-3) sec x 10^9 CPU sec/h sec
= 33 x 10^6 seconds
= 1.04+ years

That's like saying you'd have over 1 year as a human to proccess that key stroke. Is that enough time for you?

Now you know why your 2.5 GHz CPU is idle so much of the time.

* Right-Click blank spot on Taskbar
* Select Task Manager
* Click Processes tab
* Sort by decending CPU Time

I think I got the conversion units right.

Answer 2

100 years = 100 x 52 x 7 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds
= 3.145 x 10^9 seconds
1mile² = 1760 x 3 x 12 x 1760 x 3 x 12 seconds
= 4.0145 x 10^9
Thus 1mile² is greater than no. of seconds in 100years.

Answer 3

Sq inches in a sq mile


Assuming that in 100 years there are 25 leap years...
(365 days/year)(24hours/day)(60min/hour)(60sec/minute) = 31536000 sec/year

(31536000 sec/year)(year/365 days) = 86400 sec/ day (for the extra leap days)

31536000 * 100 = 3153600000
+
86400 * 25 = 2160000
=
3155760000 = 3.15576 x 10^9


(5280 feet/mile)(12in/ft) = 63360 in
(63360)^2 = 4014489600 = 4.0144896 x 10^9

Answer 4

3155760000 secs in a century (using 365.25 days per year)
4014489600 sq in in a sq mi
No, I'm not surprised