Naturally, that depends on how fast you can count.
But if you can count from 1 to 100 in one minute, and you keep counting every minute, without stopping, for eight hours every day (taking time off to eat, sleep, and go to school), you would reach 1,000,000 in 20 days, 6 hours, and 40 minutes, or almost 3 weeks.
If, however, you give up eating, sleeping, and school, and just count every minute of every hour of every day, you would reach 1,000,000 in 6 days, 22 hours, and 40 minutes, almost 1 week.
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it takes much longer to count in the 100000s than it does in the 100s
Not true. It takes much longer to say 987,986…987,987 than it does to say 99…100…101
Just under 30 days. Giving an average time for each power of 10, 99 10s, 900 100s, 9000 1000s, 90000 10000s and 900000 100000s.
YA THEY’RE RIGHT!
you guys ACTUALLY tried doing this…….
wow.
where DO you find the time????
It would take something like six and a half week to count to one million if you read every number out loud. Depending on how many syllables there is in the time it takes to say it will vary.
Added together the numbers between 1 and 1000000 contain 13219006 syllables. And that is if you skip the usuage of the additional word “and” and only focus on pronouncing the numbers.
How many syllables that can be pronounced per second will most likely differ between persons. Some will most probably also argue that syllables in smaller numbers will be easier to say, than syllables in larger numbers. I don’t know. But it isn’t that important anyway.
Let us just guess a mean value for how many seconds that is needed to pronounce a “general” syllable. 0.3 seconds for example. This multiplied with the number of syllables that one would need to pronounce would result in a counting duration of 49 days.
Also, being a bit more generous and also including a small pause between every number – for the counter to catch his or her breath – stretching for the same duration (0.3 seconds), would add another 3.5 days to that.
So, to sum it up a rather speedy counter with a sharp mind that wouldn’t do anything but counting would have to spend around 50 days to reach the one million mark.
Unless this small thesis of mine is incorrect, that is.
Also, being a bit more generous and also including a small pause between every number – for the counter to catch his or her breath – stretching for the same duration (0.3 seconds), would add another 3.5 days to that.
If it takes one second to say each number with two digits how many seconds does it take to say a number with six digits? Therefore it must take longer to say some numbers than others. For example, how long does it take to say 7, how long does it take to say 42? How long does it take to say 147,697? Therefore it varys from how fast you can say the numbers and how long they are.
how does 1 second = 1 number
i think it would better if you just count one number million times
It takes 11 and a half days to count to one million.
1 second=1number
60 seconds=1 minute
60 minutes=1 hour
24 hours=1 day
Divide 1 million(1,000,000), by 60 . . .
1,000,000 divided by 60=16666.66667
Divide 16666.66667 by 60 again
16666.66667 divided by 60=277.7777778
Divide 277.7777778 by 24
277.7777778 divided by 24=11.57407407
Therefore it takes around 11 and a half days for an average person to count to 1 million. It all counts on how fast that person can count aswell.
What?! Root beer vodka made me look this up, what’s your excuse???
THERE IS NO CORRECT ANWSER FOR ONE
AND FOR TWO THAT PERSON WHO WROTE THAT COMMENT BEFORE YOU IS PRETTY FRIKEN SMART
I just ran around the world five times while I typed this.
No 0ne can runz ar0und da w0rld five timez!!!!!11
duh, i would like to see anyone RUN around the world once…considering all the continents aren’t connected…idiot
^^ Get a load of this kid! He thinks he’s some kinda wiz-kid!
Actually, you’re dumb, because although you have a legit argument, the word “varies” in your last sentence was spelled incorrectly as “varys”.
Dummy!
I think it would be even better if you were capable of typing a grammatically correct sentence. “…count on number million times” really?
Are you really that dumb?
Most likely.
I think it would be even more better if you were capable of quoting a source accurately. If you look carefully, the First Dummy said “…count ONE number million times” not “…count ON number million times”.
Now, you seem like the kind of person who would reply back to this and say that neither of you had any words in all caps, but I had to use all caps to highlight both of your dumb mistakes.
Just to clarify, my title was typed grammatically incorrect intentionally in order to make fun of both really dumb titles.
I think it would be even much more better if you guyses stopped this madness!
I think it would be even so much more better if you would stop hugging trees and drinking syrup.
“Guyses” isn’t a word by the way…
So, we have many factors here, so I came up with a theory of my own. After all, not everyone can count to 100 in 60 seconds!
One factor is that it takes longer to say 234,856 than, say, 2,348. Solved.
Another factor is the sleep factor. Solved.
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So, let’s say we do one-Mississippi from 1 to 100. From 100 to 1,000, it takes an average of one second. So, we can safely consolidate (sp?) these numbers. 1000*1=1000 (No, *really*?)
From 1,000 to 10,000, it takes an average of two seconds to count. Subtracting the 1,000 we’ve already so-called counted, that leaves us with 9,000*2 seconds=18,000
From 10,000 to 100,000, let’s say it takes about three seconds. Sure, it’s not a straight line on the chart, but I’m not some über-mathematician, okay?
(100,000-10,000)*3=270,000 seconds
Finally, from 100,000 to le nombre de Grand, it takes around four seconds. Skipping that math, that specific leg should take 3,600,000 seconds (wow, already over a million).
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Adding it up, it should take (nonstop) 3,889,000 seconds. But, we still have the sleep factor. If you devoted eight hours of your day counting to a million, you have 28,800 seconds of your day towards counting.
3,889,000 seconds divided by 28,800 seconds a day = 135.035 days.
For the 75 days of summer (if you were laid off), I guess you could spread your 136 days over the year, perhaps over your lifetime!
–Coastergeekperson04
Good, but not good enough…
Along with the sleep factor, many psychological and physical factors remain to be equated.
It is my conclusion, that a HUMAN cannot count to 1 million in a REAL lifetime.
Every-other equation is lacking in measurable factors and relevant data.
That’s all.
…you would probably say the same when you looked down to find out that Albert Einstein couldn’t tie his shoes.
–Coastergeekperson04 (hey, I’m not registering an account!)
I meant to say “le nombre de Grande”, not “le nombre de Grand”.
I’m sick of reading comments from people who have no idea how to properly construct sentences. There are also the people who just abbreviate anything they can because either they are too lazy to spell words out, or they have no idea how to spell. The sad thing is that this has become all too common. Seriously it only takes a few more seconds to spell something out, or check if what you typed is worded correctly. I also can’t stand how often people use LOL. (laughing out loud, or laughing on line) Not everything is that funny. I did however find this site very helpful for answering my question.
LOL
haha i wish there was more people on the internet like you. people piss me off with all the dumb comments the put on things
Anonymous,
“Seriously it only takes a few more seconds to spell something out, or check if what you typed is worded correctly.”
Shouldn’t there be a comma after the word seriously?
Why all the fighting? It was just a question I needed answered for a calculus class. Reading all of these comments over random crap was useless. Bickering and whining will not solve anything. Thank you for your time answering the question, but seriously, enough is enough.
you guys need to get a life