787 Billion Dollars is a lot of money!

It is sometimes hard to appreciate big numbers. One billion sounds so much like one million, only a little bigger, but it really is quite a bit more.

Here is one way to think of that number. Don't think of dollars, think of seconds instead. Replace each dollar with one second. So...

78.7 seconds ago, it was just over one minute ago.

787 seconds ago, it was 13 minutes ago.

787 thousand seconds ago, it was 9 days ago.

787 million seconds ago, it was 25 years ago.

787 billion seconds ago, it was 25,000 years ago and the Neanderthals were just dying out.