Answer:
Compare the 2010 U.S. military budget of $683.7 billion to other quantities.
Solution
Here we have a very large number, about $683,700,000,000 written out. Of course, imagining a billion dollars is very difficult, so it can help to compare it to other quantities.
If that amount of money was used to pay the salaries of the 1.4 million Walmart employees in the U.S., each would earn over $488,000.
There are about 300 million people in the U.S. The military budget is about $2,200 per person.
If you were to put $683.7 billion in $100 bills, and count out 1 per second, it would take 216 years to finish counting it.
