How Long Does it Take to Count to 1 Million? | Counting to 1,000,000 | Math with Mr. J

welcome to math with Mr Jay [Music] this video I'm going to cover how long it takes to count to 1 million now hypothetically speaking we are going to say that one number is being counted per second now this would be extremely difficult if not impossible especially when counting those six digit numbers for example 583 222 583 223 so you can see how difficult that would be but to keep everything as consistent as possible as far as working through this we will say that one number is being counted every second that means that this will take one million seconds now if we take those seconds and divide by 60 we get this two minutes that gives us 16 666 and 67 hundredths now that decimal was rounded to the hundredths place now we can take those minutes and I'm going to use the original decimal not the rounded decimal and divide by 60 to get this two hours that gives us 277 and 78 hundredths and that was rounded to the hundredths place as well now we can take those hours and divide by 24 to get this two days now I'm going to use the original decimal and divide by 24 not the rounded decimal so again we are going to divide by 24. that gives us 11 and 57 hundredths and that decimal was also rounded to the hundredths place that means it takes a little over 11 and a half days to count to one million and again that's one number per second with absolutely no breaks now let's take a look at this in a different form so it's not going to be in decimal form we're going to take a look at the exact amount of days hours minutes and seconds here is all of the math worked out by hand and I know it's pretty disappointing that I went through all of this long division without you but for the sake of time I worked everything out beforehand doing it this way allows us to get the exact seconds minutes hours and days this would take so I started by dividing one million seconds by 60 to get this two minutes we had 40 seconds left over then I took the minutes and divided by 60 to get this 2 hours 46 minutes were left over then I took those hours and divided them by 24 to get this two days 13 hours were left over that gives us 11 days 13 hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds to count to 1 million when one number is being counted per second so there you have it there's how long it takes to come to 1 million and again that's with zero breaks and Counting one number per second and this is still a crazy amount of time so it puts into perspective how large 1 million really is I hope that helped thanks so much for watching until next time peace here