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The E-Sylum: Volume 14, Number 42, October 9, 2011, Article 22

FEATURED WEB SITE: THE MEGAPENNY PROJECT

This week's Featured Web Site is suggested by Timothy Grat.

Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"

100000 Pennies
100,000 Pennies (well, 98,304 actually)

www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/



Wayne Homren, Editor

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