My guys are really into numbers. They love to count and add, and one guy has even figured out how to count by threes. They know the world’s cutest/most annoying chant: “One, two, skip a few, ninety-nine, one hundred.” I only let them say it once a day each.
One boy boasted that he could count to a thousand. No, he could count to a million! Tired of hearing it, I found a website (count one million.com) that counts 24/7, unless you close your iPad, then it pauses. I got it running on my laptop, and on Friday at noon, we will see the big number. How long does it take? Twelve days. We jumped in on day five, thank goodness.
Kristi says
Did you get to see the big number??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? OK, enough of that. I wondered what a million question marks would look like.
Brad says
I see this number when getting blown away by orders of magnitude:
One thousand seconds = 17 hours
One million seconds = 12 days
One billion seconds = 31.7 years
Mark says
And a trillion seconds is 31,709.8 years.
Think about that the next time Congress decides to raise the debt ceiling another half-trillion dollars.
Lauren says
Today is the big day. We’ll see it at noon. I am allowing noisemakers for the twenty seconds it shows tiny fireworks before starting up the count again. :)_
Sorry for the lack of a new post. My computer is giving me fits.
Kris says
How was the twenty-second celebration?
Lauren says
Pretty good, except for the tears of the girl who broke her noisemaker. (She recovered.) Let’s see if the Facebook link will work: https://www.facebook.com/stjohncdc/?hc_ref=ARRAGdVVZvufxlagLecDQJNB6ntSDepF_rryVtLrMdZPdJjRt2viaauclpqNSv7t6G4&fref=nf