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MegaPenny Project 'shows' large numbers ...

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KenR:
This site shows images that can help you visualize large numbers which you might hear or use often, but rarely have a chance to see...

Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?" ...

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