How long would it take to count to a billion?

Question

assuming you could physically/mentally do it and you speak each number in its entirety.

Answer 1

31.7 years if you count at a rate of once per second.  So it would probably take somewhat longer cause when you got up to "Two million, six hundred and seventy five thousand, nine hundred and sixty two, two million, six hundred and seventy five thousand, nine hundred and sixty three", etc it would take longer than a second to say it, or even think it.

Probably a lot longer, I'd guess around 125 years, but that's just a guess.

Answer 2

You should be able to approach ten per second in your head.  So that's just 100,000,000 seconds.  It's two weeks for a million seconds.  So this is just 200 weeks - or about 4 years.  But you can't do it 24x7.  Let's say you can only do it 8 hours a day.  That would be 12 years.

But my 5 year old, el cheapo computer can count to a billion in about half a second.  And it takes me about two minutes to set it up.

Answer 3

That would depend on how fast you count, wouldn't it.  Assuming you can count a number every second (might get hard once the numbers are big enough), then a billion second would mean:

1 billion second * 1hr/3600sec * 1day/24hr * 1yr/365day = 32.5 yrs

Answer 4

I timed myself for a few numbers, and assuming the following.

1-999 is 1 sec per number

1000-999999 is 2 sec per number

1,000,000-1,000,000,000 is 3 sec per number.

I get 95 years of continuous counting, no sleep or anything else.

Answer 5

Try and see for yourself!