Too Many ZerosNumbers too big to feel, worked out for your life.
Short videos that take a billion, a trillion or the numbers hiding in your own day, and turn them into something you can picture. Every number is sourced and shown step by step.
Since you opened this page
- Times your heart has beaten At 70 beats a minute. 0
- Time spent on phones, worldwide Time spent on phones, worldwide About 5 billion smartphones, 3.5 hours a day each. The video is out Sunday 15 November. 0 years
- Earned by a billion dollars At an example 4% a year. $0.00
- Video uploaded to YouTube More than 500 hours every minute. 0 hours
Each row opens the video it comes from.
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How much of your life will you spend on your phone?
How much money would a nurse need to never work again?
If the universe was a year, when did we show up?
How many people have ever lived?
How many heartbeats are there in a lifetime?
One day of YouTube takes 82 years to watch.
How long is your DNA?
How long would it take to spend 1 billion dollars?
How long is a trillion seconds?
How the numbers are made
Too Many Zeros is an independent channel made in New Zealand. Each video takes one number that's too big to feel and works it out against something you know.
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Sourced
Every number starts from a named source, such as a statistics office, a research report or a published study. The sources are listed under each video.
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Worked out in the open
The maths is in each video's description, step by step. Where a number is an estimate, it says so.
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Corrected in public
If a number turns out to be wrong, the correction is pinned under the video.
In the videos, colour tells you the size
- Thousands stay white
- Millions turn yellow
- Billions turn red
- Trillions turn blue
Want your number worked out?
Tell me your job, your screen time or your age in the comments under any video, and I'll work out the next one.