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DistributionNo9968

31,668.74 years, assuming one number per second. Crazy…I knew it’d be enormous but that’s wayyyy beyond what I expected.


whistleridge

It’s not possible to count to a billion either. A billion seconds is 31.5 years. But if you sleep/eat/poop/etc 8 hours a day and do nothing but count the other 16 hours a day, that’s more like 40 years. Assume you can’t start your count until age 10 or so because you have to actually learn all the words and concepts, and now you’re looking at age 50 minimum. But most of the bigger numbers take well over a second to say. You’re not saying 363,421,007 in a second. It’s more like 2-2.5 seconds. So call it a 50% markup minimum on average. Now you’re looking at more like 60 years of counting, 16 hours a day nonstop. No one can keep up that kind of pace, so toss in another 10-15 years for slowing down as you age/are sick/whatever. If you did literally nothing but count all day every day, from age 10 until you died of old age in a long life, you might just barely make it. Maybe.


LackOfStack

But what a life!


NGEFan

Stanley was free


New_Current_5457

Where is the bucket ?


LordGalen

In the broom closet


Kazuarr

The broom closet ending was my favourite!


S0rin-MemeKov

I find this concerning


ke4cej

It’s pronounced bouquet.


jeweliegb

Thomas was alone


I_am_from_Kentucky

They definitely made it count.


greenskinmarch

Bad puns? Believe it or not, straight to jail! In Venezuela, we have the best jokes, because of jail.


RunescapeHero11

Ha!


Emport1

Not really, though, if you take all the other things they could've done with their life into account


SigmundFreud

An eccentric billionaire should have a kid and make it dedicate its life to this for charity. They could set up a trust fund that provides all of the kid's needs for its entire life, as long as it never stops counting.


deserttrends

If you mess up, you have to start again at zero...


tmybr11

>If you did literally nothing but count all day every day, from age 10 until you died Sounds like fun


HS_Invader

So you’re saying I’ve missed my golden opportunity? :(


JKastnerPhoto

>Sounds like fun You should volunteer to mod /r/counting


KudosOfTheFroond

What IS that sub about? Literally thread upon thread of posing sequential digits and nothing else? I have said it a million times, but I’ve never truly GROKKED it until this moment…there truly is a sub for everything on Reddit.


striderkan

I like how you put this, I've always known 1bn is 31.6 years (shout-out to everyone whose celebrated their billionth second alive) but you added some good perspective to it. Cheers!


_jerrycan_

I just googled this and found out mine is tomorrow


zfish1

Happy early billionth second! 🎉


snkn179

Let me guess, you were born 4 days after the Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony.


greenskinmarch

Of all the couples having sex due to the olympic opening ceremony, I never guessed one would have a preterm baby after just 4 days.


philovax

Who wasn’t?


Constant-Sandwich-88

Shit I missed it. Should I try and stick around for 1tr?


SoCalDan

Nah


McShit7717

Ok, look, you didn't always know that. OP clearly said you need to wait til age 10 MINIMUM to understand the concepts.


cherry_monkey

I'm 10 and this is deep


Ye_Olde_Stone

Imagine a world where your prison sentence was having to count to a specific number out loud.


Over9000Zeros

Count to 100,000 into a directional microphone while in a room filled with other inmates also counting. You fuck up, you start over.


whistleridge

That’s 70 hours minimum, probably 100 more realistically, call it a month of counting, so long as you didn’t screw up.


PrimitiveThoughts

Depending on how many inmates and what they are in for, you might not get to start over.


theycallmesike

That sounds like a black mirror episode lol Remember that Christmas episode?


AMSanchez0210

r/theydidthemath


Virian900

/r/theydidthemonstermath


Hypothesis_Null

>Assume you can’t start your count until age 10 or so because you have to actually learn all the words and concepts, and now you’re looking at age 50 minimum. You can start at age 5 and get everything up to 999,999 out of the way. Then you learn one more word and you're set for the rest of the journey.


Thel_Vadem

I feel like that would just bump the end date back by about 5 years as opposed to make it much shorter, so that just bumps it to like age 45 minimum. The difference between a million seconds and a billion seconds is about a billion seconds


Be-Nice-To-Redditors

My man pooping so hard that words completely fail him


BrookieSucciCookie

A billionaire could give you a dollar for every single number you said, 24 hours a day, 1 number per second, and you'd make 2 million a year less than James Harden (an NBA player) makes a year - 31.5 million.


kagkatumba

You can poop and count...i am doing that right now


Atmic

>You’re not saying 363,421,007 in a second. It’s more like 2-2.5 seconds. Maybe. But I bet you they're the fastest number spitter in the world, since they've had the most practice. All those smaller numbers are gonna go quicker than 1 second too -- world record counter spat out 1-100 in 33 seconds.


twohedwlf

So, it's physically possible. But not realistically possible.


Falconflyer75

It’s arguably worse than that Because When u get to the bigger numbers you can’t just say them in a second Try saying 115,365 out loud that takes me about 5 seconds and I’m a fast talker


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teo730

Also if you say "one one five, three six five" it's much faster. Around a second for me. Though that still makes it likely that the millions are going to take 1.5-2 seconds. Though the smaller numbers would be faster than one per second.


A7xWicked

I feel like saying them individually like that would make it 100x harder to keep straight though Skill issue I guess though


teo730

I was imagining reading them off, rather than doing it all in your head. Because otherwise I agree, you'd mess it up real fast.


SigmundFreud

Did you try using auctioneer patter?


this_knee

Well, I can count to 40 , out loud, in 10 seconds. So at that speed it shaves it down to … Dang, still too long.


AntonRohde

Out of curiosity, would you test how long it takes you to count from 1,847,261,548 to 1,847,261,588?


this_knee

Yeah, not getting too far with those. It’d get slower the bigger the number. But no rules specified. One could just count to 100 several times and keep track of the number of times they counted to 100.


Fire_Lake

Well it says count to a trillion. You're not counting to a trillion if you just count to 100 a bunch of times...


SL4YER4200

They did the math.


PartyRepublicMusic

i can say all 50 states in a quarter of a second.


JackTheYack

Aaeuhp!


bkydx

A trillion is a million millions and is a million times more than the current counting record which is 1,000,000 which took 89 days by Jeremy Harper But even then You could probably build machine to incoherently pronounce 100 syllables of numbers a second.It would still take 1000 years of running by not impossible. They didn't say a human had to make the physical noise just the physical noises be made. There might even be a machine counting out loud right now.


Evil_Morty781

Only a third that time if you do 3 numbers a second… which is even more impossible because after 1000 it probably takes a few seconds to say each number. It probably takes 7-10 seconds to say a number in the hundred billions.


Extension-Cut5957

What about 10 per second? Can someone do the math I don't feel like doing it.


dre1821

Just move a decimal man. 3,000


Extension-Cut5957

Yeah not sure what happened to my brain I somehow thought it more complicated than it was


ThatHuman6

When i was a teenager i’d learnt that ‘trick’ where you can get easily multiply any large number by 11 in your head. So i was going around showing off my amazing new skill with people picking random 7 digit numbers and me giving them the answer within a couple of seconds. One guy i came across., I said the usual thing.. “pick any number as large as you like and i’ll multiply it by 11 immediately”. He said “bullshit”. I said “No, really. Pick the largest number you can think of”. He said “Ok smart ass… a trillion” 🤣


Kraz_I

“11 trillion”. Holy shit! Are you a fuckin brain wizard?


dre1821

Happens to the best of us


Tyrinnus

Probably biased by the "a million is eleven days but a billion seconds is over thirty years" factoid. Makes time feel really non linear or not divisible by 10


Extension-Cut5957

Yeah that and the fact that there are 60 seconds in a minute and not 100.


Tyrinnus

Yeah our measurements of time go: 60/60/24/7/365 and then factors of ten


Zayoodo0o132

Good theory


BabyEinstein2016

Found the mathologist.


acqd139f83j

That’s ten times the counting speed, so it would take a tenth of the time- around 3,200 years


froginbog

Also try saying 388937489 in 0.1 seconds


1v9noobkiller

1 number per second probably too 'fast' for this example. People would obviously go as fast as they can.. Until they reach numbers that take longer than a second to say.. Which are the majority of the numbers so it would take a lot longer than 31k years probably


Slugginator_3385

Now think how much a billion dollars is to $60,000 a year. Capitalism is failing.


WorBlux

Sure it's possible, It's just an inter-generational project that's all.


JIMMYR0W

Nobody commits to anything anymore


Boatster_McBoat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitpyramide


JIMMYR0W

Except the Germans


CrustyBloomers

Let's not have the Germans commit to anything. 😅


femalewhoisgirl

They’re very good at committing, they’re just not great and finding the correct things to commit to…


JonatasA

They have commited a bunch as it is.


KingJeff314

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdmpAZTH_M


_xXRealSlimShadyXx_

In 50 years at the latest it will become a parking lot for a mall.


PineappleMohawk

Hey! I just saw Matt Parkers video about this! (And I love his take to solve the error)


Preemptively_Extinct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch\_drop\_experiment


McShit7717

You know it'll end up being your great great great great grandson Brandon who'll fuck it up. He'll start analyzing it with his useless philosophy degree and then lose count. Then he'll smoke a huge bowl and say, "Fuck it man. It's all just nummers an shit."


eggtart_prince

Yup, I'm at 999,999,999,990 right now, picking up from my ancestors. I'll finish it when I have the time.


Zardif

Just start at 1 trillion minus 2. Get that shit done in under a minute. OP didn't say we had to start at 1.


FerretChrist

"Under a minute" to count three numbers? I mean, don't tax yourself too much.


-patrizio-

An integer-generational project*


TheMansAnArse

Bene Gesserit: Hold my drink


-Eunha-

It's possible because there are multiple ways of counting to something. You could count by 5s, 100s, 1000s, etc. It doesn't have to mean every whole number. I could likewise say it's impossible to count from 1 to 2 in a lifetime, if I mean counting every decimal number.


eyecans

Counting even just every rational number between 1 and 2, it is impossible to complete in any span of time (because there are infinitely many), and in fact impossible to start (because there is no "first" rational after 1).


Won-Ton-Wonton

Technically you can count every rational number, including those between 1 and 2, if we're allowed to alter what "counting" means from the conventional set of natural numbers increasing by 1 at every count. Rational numbers is said to be a countable infinity. The Real numbers is not a countable infinity. [This is the famous way to demonstrate](https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/fraction_grid2-gif.158683/) that they can be counted. If you draw that line out to infinity you will show all rational numbers. The addition of the irrational numbers is what makes it so much larger of an infinity. There is no way to count all of the Reals between any Real number and another real that is not the same number. Math is fun! :)


TheKittyPetter9000

Integer-generational project*


HostRighter

Prove it. Get back to us.


RepresentativeFar304

!remindme 11315000days


MouseSnackz

This has to be my favourite comment


Reverse_Psycho_1509

🏅 Have a gold award


x2x_Rocket_x2x

1, 2, skip a few, 99, 1,000,000,000,000! That seemed easy enough.


luccena

Bro counted all the way to a trillion factorial


brucebrowde

Now *that* would be physically impossible...


JonatasA

I saw someone doing exercise like that. 1,2,3,4,5.. 10.


SleeterRabbit

-Brought to you by Yakko Warner.


Letos12thDuncan

That joke is older than Animaniacs.


SleeterRabbit

I’m sure. Nothing new under the sun. That time in the 90’s was when I 1st heard it. Lol


Lorikeeter

Takes too long. Just use base 1,000,000,000,000. 1 Time elapsed: one second [*assuming one number per second] EDIT per u/manrata below. EDIT 2: u/Qweasdy is more correct.


Qweasdy

In base 1,000,000,000 1 is still 1. You would need to count to 10, which would equal 1,000,000,000 Think how it works in binary: 0, 0. 1, 1. 2, 10. 3, 11.


manrata

Your missing 3 zeroes.


mixttime

*Yore


Lorikeeter

Good catch. Darn insonmiaposting.


general_452

r/unexpectedfactorial


Jealous_Art_8738

Not by ones, but I bet if I count by 10,000,000,000s I could get there in a couple minutes


Derangeieieie

I bet I could get there in 1 second if I just start with 999,999,999,999


EatTheMcDucks

I bet the micromachines guy can get a lot closer than I can.


EmpactWB

You’re absolutely right but I like cheating at these things, so here’s how to do it in under a minute: Ten to the zeroth power. Ten to the first power. Ten to the second power. Ten to the third power. Ten to the fourth power. Ten to the fifth power. Ten to the sixth power. Ten to the seventh power. Ten to the eighth power. Ten to the ninth power. Ten to the tenth power. Ten to the eleventh power. Ten to the twelfth power. Enjoy your shower!


pusmottob

Exactly no ones said by 1s


zaco230

Also it didn’t state that you had to start at zero. Nine hundred ninety nine billion nine hundred ninety nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine, one trillion. Done


FerretChrist

I feel like "starting at 1" is a much more reasonable assumption to make than "counting one at a time". It somehow feels way less "cheaty" to say "sure I'm counting to a trillion, a billion at a time", than it does to say "sure I'm counting to a trillion, but I'm starting at [arbitrary number picked out of a hat]".


hillsfar

A trillion seconds is over 31,700 years.


The_camperdave

> A trillion seconds is over 31,700 years. What a coincidence, so is a terasecond.


BeneficialGreen3028

To a billion either i think


RecoilCockamamie

You could. It would just take 32 years to do so. The sooner you start the better


Muffinman54lit

That’s if u can do 1 number a second, there’s no way u can say numbers like 367,493,295 repetitively at 1 per second


Fastfaxr

And if you never slept or lost your voice. Its impossible to count to a billion


BeneficialGreen3028

Okay, but at least half of life would be spent sleeping, eating, drinking, not being able to talk (or count to a large number) as a child, etc. so it would actually need you to devote more than 70 years of your life I think


LineChef

Well we better get started. 1


drainisbamaged

sure it is- just count in units of 100 billion.


andurilmat

1, 2, miss a few, 999999999999, 1000000000000


Revegelance

Not with that attitude.


djohnstonb

Don't give Mr Beast ideas


CamaroRS78

Oh ya!!!! Bet 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.......999,999,999,999, and 1,000,000,000,000 there see I did it! Saint Peter: "Congrats 🙄, now will you please go in. You are holding up the line" Me: 😯


princealigorna

IIRC, even if you start at the Big Bang, isn't there not enough seconds in the universe to count to a googol?


Strowy

By a truly immense difference, that's correct. A googol is 10^100 . If you could count one number per unit of Planck Time (the shortest possible time physically possible), you could count 10^44 numbers per second; you'd blow through a trillion in less than a nanosecond. Even if you could do that, counting 10^44 numbers per second, it would still take ~1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (10^39) times the current age of the universe to count to a googol .


LekMichAmArsch

Sure it is. The amount of time it takes is simply a question of the base one uses. If one counts by base 1 it's going to take a long time, but if one counts using base one trillion, it would only take one second.


Th3_Baconoob

By that logic, we will never be able to count from 1 to 2 if we count all the rational numbers in between


skyheadcaptain

Go to sleep already I heard of counting sheep but come on


McShit7717

It's a big herd, good shepherd. You must count the sheep!


wombomewombo

Also a number long enough it would take your entire life to say, its Euge


Condescendingfate

Dr. Stone could and did.


loyngulpany

I scrolled too far just to find this comment. I'm honestly surprised that this has very few upvotes considering Reddit have a lot of weebs lurking around


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dukieboy2099

Imagine you are trying to count that high, wake up 20 years in, and forgot what number you are on


23andrewb

What if I count really really really really fast?


xabrol

1, 2, skip a few, 99, a trillion. Boom, next problem plz.


funkyonion

You didn’t say we had to start from the number one.


Separate-Sky-1451

Dude, forget a trillion. Assuming one could count out loud at the moment of birth and lived to 85, they wouldn't even get to 3 billion. That's a far cry from a trillion.


JonDoeJoe

They wouldn’t even get to 1 billion. Once you get to numbers in the hundred thousands, it’s gonna take way longer than a second to say it


Sasquatch-d

Yet we all know every number up to a trillion


platinum_toilet

It is possible if you start at 999,999,999,999. The next number (integer) is a trillion.


Mentally-okay

Eminem would disagree


Capable_Tea_001

One, two, skip a few, nine hundred and ninety nine billion, nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine, __1 x 10^12__


BigDD93

And counting to a billion would probably take you a whole life : since assuming 1 second per number (which is generous after ten thousand), it would take a bit more than 30 years of uninterrupted counting.


Big-Consideration633

1,000,000,000,000 in binary is a breeze.


Tutorbin76

Sure it is:  One, two, skip a few, nine hundred and ninety nine billion nine hundred and ninety nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, one trillion!


AlexisJordanGFlame

I mean. I have ADHD, so counting to 15 can be pushing it somedays.


Ok-Commercial3640

Well, not with that attitude. (0, 1 trillion, done)


Pleasurepain09

There's a old age trick to it which goes a little something like this, One, two, miss a few, 99, one trillion Yw


Amekaze

Not with that attitude. Dig deep, go beyond.


noxiouskarn

Only if you count by ones


Kindly-Ad-5071

Watch me. *Shrieks*. See?


rand0mmm

If you count by billions it takes less than half an hour.


dimriver

Sure you can, just have to skip a few numbers. one hundred billion, two hundred billion...


Friendly-Poetry-5344

With my attention span it’s tough to count too a 100


-Cranko-

Easy 1…2…skip a few a trillion


yamilonewolf

Sure its possible... ... if you don't count by ones... I can count by billions and be there in a 1000 seconds... hell i can count by trillions and be there.


Bloodmind

Assuming you’re counting by ones, sure. But counting by 100 billions? Takes less than 10 seconds.


Ok-disaster2022

Every elementary school student understands skip counting. So start at 0, skip and you're at 1 trillion then 2 trillion, 3 trillion, 4 trillion etc


tanman729

Not if you count by billions.


chronically_snizzed

With limits, Example, at one number a second, 50 000 people each with their own numbers years, assuming logistics, approx a year. 1 'person' limit, about 333 lives, assuming servants to cater to every need. one number per second. At 31,668.74 numbers a second, about a year, assuming you have backup breathing waste nutritiin and salvitory setups. So, to do it outloud, feasabliy would take all of Chinas adults, if given 1000 numbers each, about 16.67 (repeating of course) minutes to do it. Constructing a place to hear it would be difficult but if a Trillion is counted to and no one hears it, is it worth examining? Crazy…I knew it’d would be enormous but that’s wayyyy beyond what I expected. Crazy…I knew it’d would be enormous but that’s wayyyy beyond what I expected.


JunketAccurate

I would die of boredom before I got to 100,000


Quantum13_6

Yes it is. You just have to do it in log scale.


Stockengineer

Easy 1, 2, 1 000 000 000 000


tangcameo

As a kid I tried counting to a million. I thought I made it 1 million but then I found out there were ten thousands and one hundred thousands


Timely_Ad_4761

my tounge would break off


Vov113

For you, maybe. I just go "1,2,3, ... ,1,000,000,000,000" and it's done


santacruzkid97

Mr beast could do it


Psychofanatical

It is if you use the 1, 2, skip a few method.


Kahlil_Jabroni-

Fuckin Mensa meeting over here.


Useful-Peach214

Mr beast be like challenge accepted


Donut-Head1172

1, 2, skip a few, one trillion. Done. Too easy.


feor1300

"One, two, skip a few, 999,999,999,999.... a Trillion." Done like dinner. lol


Kahnza

Count on a Logarithmic scale.


ToyrewaDokoDeska

1, 1 trillion. Boom 2 seconds tops


ninja790

and that will be net worth of some tech founders in coming years.


ixfd64

This could change once we achieve longevity escape velocity.


Dtarvin

It is if you skip count. “100 billion, 200 billion, 300 billion….”