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