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[Phoenix-Rising]

Jim. can you please come back and bash my great stock. ya see I was waiting at .05 and you only bashed it to .06

now it is at .071 and well. Im greedy and dont want to pay more than .05

thanks..

[Tavycal]

How long would it take to count to 703 billion shares?

How long does it take to count to one billion counting one number per
second?

V. L. Shaffer-White


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Date: 3/11/96 at 21:37:2
From: Doctor Patrick
Subject: Re: Counting to one billion

Hi -

Counting non-stop, at one number a second, it would take you 31 years,
251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 39 seconds to count to 1 billion.
Here's how I came up with that figure:

To count to 1 billion would take 999,999,999 seconds, because the
timer would start as soon as the person says "one", one second would
have passed when the person says "two," and so on. [Thanks to Jacques
de Wet for this observation.]

Now, there are 31557600 seconds in one year
(seconds*minutes*hours*days). Divide 999,999,999 by that figure for
the number of years. Then divide the remainder (which has to be less
then a year) by the number of seconds in a day for the number of days.
If you keep doing this, eventually you get down to the number of
minutes, and the remainder of that will give you the number of
seconds.

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58739.html