That is to say, a million golf balls will fit in the average-sized master bedroom¹. So for example, it turns out that 100 neatly stacked golf balls is 14 feet tall, so a million golf balls will perfectly fill a 14 × 14 × 14 ft cube (with no gap fill). To visualize a million of something, in general, it’s helpful to imagine a cube measuring 100 of that thing on each side. I’d argue that’s important for just about anything being dealt with at scale - if nothing else but for the sake of grasping the gravity of the numbers being discussed. I have a hard time visualizing even a few thousand of anything, so a mental trick for reframing large quantities is helpful for me in understanding such things. It’s not large from a strictly mathematical or cosmological perspective, but arguably large from a conceptual one. A word you hear a lot in the same sentence as funding, revenues, or dollars is “million ”.
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