Millions, Billions and Squillions

We are endlessly bombarded with figures which the average human mind finds difficult to comprehend. The UK national Debt is predicted to rice to 1.1 trillion pounds by 2011. To put this into perspective if you tried to count up this figure using one number every second it would take over 31,688 years!

Wembley stadium is often used as a measuring device to explain large figures - it has a capacity of 90,000 - so 1 billion people would fill 1111.111 Wembley stadiums - or should that be 'stadia'? The world's population is estimated at about 6.4 billion so they would all fit into 65,000 Wembleys but, if my maths is correct, each one would need about £300 to pay off the UK National Debt - but then that is less than half the price of a season ticket for West Ham United

As you can see my mind works in weird ways.