Generali's XII days of Christmas Quiz (part 4)

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Ok, answers first in this increasingly irrelevant series of threads:

Question 5:

Q6:

ah carp, i was thinking of the number of trades, rather than the number of shares traded (not that i would have got it right anyway), still i did quite well in question that i thought i was answering, so i will give myself a bonus point.

(c) for Q6.

sss555s

Michaels looks like he knows what he is talking about. d!

treliac

sss555s wrote: »

Michaels looks like he knows what he is talking about. d!

I'm glad someone does. Good old Michaels :cool:

Generali

sss555s wrote: »

Michaels looks like he knows what he is talking about. d!

This may be a dumb question but if michaels knows what he's talking about, why would you choose a different answer?

JonnyBravo

Generali wrote: »

To put it into context, to spend £40,000,000,000, that would be about £2 a day since the dinosaurs died out.

The human brain really does have trouble with large numbers. It is VERY hard to imagine a million of anything let alone billions or trillions. (EU bailout fund is now proposed to be over 1 trillion)

Humans don't (or never used to) deal with millions of ANYTHING. We all knew a few handful of people and traded small amounts of "whatever" to exist.

I find the most useful demonstrator of how quickly those extra zeroes make numbers just mind boggling is by using time. There are many examples.

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A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

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A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.

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A million hours ago was in 1885.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth

JonnyBravo

Generali wrote: »

The kids like me to count to a decillion in the car.

I'm not sure what that says for your alternative conversation

wymondham

Generali wrote: »

It's incredibly easy once you know the trick. The kids like me to count to a decillion in the car.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200 and so on. You get to very high numbers pretty quickly that way.

I'm guessing the trips were not just to the shops?

sss555s

Generali wrote: »

This may be a dumb question but if michaels knows what he's talking about, why would you choose a different answer?

Smoke n mirrors. It's all a cunning plan to scoop the 3rd place prize which hasn't been listed yet :beer:

ash28

C for me please.

purch

USians gave $290,000,000,000 to charity in 2010.

That's roughly what the UK government spends on health and education combined!

Looks like having charitable donations as 100% Tax Deductable is a good idea :T