[boris]

"If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!"

Only if you are so slow that you add one count per second.

--Boris

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Well, I'm sure they've taken into account the amount of time it takes to say a number such as "four hundred sixty-three billion, five hundred seventy-nine million, three hundred ninety-five thousand four hundred sixty-two. There are more numbers like that than there are the ones that you can say in a fraction of a second, don't you think? Anyone care to do a more realistic calculation of the time it would take to count that high?