A million centimetres is 10 km.
So to your local supermarket, and back.
A billion cm is 10 000 km. Almost London to Singapore. And in the average range for annual driving.
A trillion cm is 10 million kilometres, or a round trip to the moon FORTY TIMES.
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.
A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.
But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years β to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
