A trillion, triumphant

Sunday’s New York Times has these comparisons to a trillion (in light of the $2.77 trillion U.S. budget for 2007):

  • Possible hands for one bridge player: 635 billion
  • Stars in the Milky Way: Up to 400 billion
  • Pennies in use: 150 billion
  • All people who ever lived: Perhaps 100 billion
  • Acres of land on earth: 37 billion