Over at Albloggerque Jon Knudsen talks of how million and billion soon lose their meaning. He notes, “If a person counted one number per second, it would take about 11 days to count to one million. It would take 33 years to count to one billion.”
NewMexiKen likes this analogy. If you spent $10,000 a day, you could spend a million dollars in 100 days. It would take you almost 274 years to spend a billion dollars.