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A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
Tom Scott
Tom Scott makes the difference between a million and a billion dollars tangible by using distance on a road trip instead of volume. The drive makes the scale of a billion intuitively felt.
HN points to it whenever discussion turns to billionaire wealth or the human difficulty of grasping very large numbers.
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