A Trillion - how big's that?

G20 gives 1 Trillion dollars to fight the economic crisis.

Will it work? Nobody knows.

How much money is that?

Well, a million seconds is 12 days
a billion seconds is 31 years
a trillion seconds is 31,688 years

So its fair to say it's a lot of money.

What does it look like?


$100



$10,000



1 Million




100 million




1 billion



and



1 Trillion

note they are double stacked pallets and the person is standing by the left hand bottom corner.

Jeepers it does make Ngai Tahu's $600 million look pretty small and fragile.