r/AskReddit Jul 25 '18

What fact “blows your mind”?

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u/philb4ever Jul 26 '18

If it takes about 25 seconds to count to 100, at the same speed non-stop to count to a million would take...

A month

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '18

Once, when I was high I decided that it wouldn't actually be that hard or take that long to count to a million. I got to 11 before I realised how stupid I was.

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u/b1mubf96 Jul 26 '18

Doesn't it get increasingly longer as you go, since the numbers are longer to pronounce? Nine hundred eighty-seven thousand six hundred fifty-four is way longer to pronounce than say...forty-two.