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1 billion hours played sure is a lot, in some ways.

Of course, humanity racks up a billion person-hours now every nine minutes, so in another, probably more meaningful way, it's not much at all.



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So the claim is that there have been at least 9 million hours played per day by an unknown number of "kids". That's... profoundly difficult to unpack from "more than a millennium per day". And I'm still not actually sure that's what they meant. Is this kind of construction common?

I understand "man-hours", but I've never heard words like "millennium" inserted like that.


A million hours is more than a century, I think that is somewhat unlikely.

1 billion.

My thoughts exactly.

One million per hour? I forgot how to count that low.


1 million events an hour is just 278 a second, which is a much more surmountable number than 1 million.

100 billion yearly turns into around 200K per minute.

Approximately 1 billion.

* 1 billion...

Briefly, so far I didn't see a difference to other messengers. But still 1 billion is equivalent of about 5000 man years of effort.

Try 1 Billion

57 million. Good stuff. I think there is a bug that it goes beyond 1000 years if you turn the speed up.

https://i.imgur.com/hE8oX4S.png


I could easily count to 1 billion, but I don't have the time to undertake that task.

AKA a billion billion.

Or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000


I don't think you understand how much one billion is.

to help you out: 1 million seconds is ~11 days. 1 billion seconds is ~31 years.


tl;dr: 1 million units

How big is a billion? If you start counting and increment per second,it takes nearly 32 years (more than that) to complete. I think it's a big number for a product to sell that much. If you consider the world population, that makes it even more dramatic. Big accomplishment.

It's 1000, 000 -> 999.

It's 1 billion.

Four billion and 1.
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