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title: A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualised: A Road Trip — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/a-million-dollars-vs-a-billion-dollars-visualised-a-road-trip/
date: 2020-07-13
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# A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualised: A Road Trip

There are lots of ways to compare a million to a billion, but most of them use volume. And I think that’s a mistake, because volume just isn’t something the human brain is great at. So instead, here’s the difference between a million and a billion, in a more one-dimensional way: distance.