The question -- how to grok giant numbers?

Big numbers amuse me. Not sure exactly why? It's an information age thing, that's all I'm sure of. 

tower at 250,000 97 0 
cross of glass is 'M' rail East from 0 100 0 to 1,000,000 97 0 
and a 1,000 block walking path North/South from -500 to 500

Virtual scale depends on translation. The average virtual walking speed of a player's avatar (named skin character) across a FLAT world is apparently, search result: 5.6 blocks per second? (Minecraft isn't flat unless a player creates a flat world). I tested it in Java Minecraft 5 times on a flat area just now and came up with 267 blocks a minute or 4.45 blocks per second. 

The average walking speed for an actual human seems to be 3 to 3.2 miles per hour or 4.7 to 4.5 feet per second. Something like that. 

Search result: "a total of 52,592,000 steps to walk the distance equal to the circumference of the Earth."

For the flat earth folks, ha ha, if you could walk on water. Search result: "If you were to walk around the world at an adult's average walking speed of 4.82 km/h (3 mph) it would take you roughly 8,313 hours and 20 minutes."

Meanwhile, In Java, the version of Minecraft I play, the world border is located at X/Z coordinates ±29,999,984. From zero ~ zero starting in the center of Minecraft, walking on a flat world at a rate of 5 blocks per second, (because you run sometimes to speed it up because unlike real life this would be boring as hell, or you would seriously want to tell an AI to do it). 29,999,984 blocks divided by 5 blocks per second = 5,999,996.8 seconds. Divided by 60 minutes = 99,999.94 hours. 

Ummm...? Obviously, or not 99,999.94 hours for the diameter of a Flat world Minecraft. 

And 8,313 hours to walk around an imaginary flat no ocean Earth. 

99,999.94 hours divided by 8,313 walking laps around the equator of an imaginary flat earth = 12 times from zero to one edge, (a flat diameter of Minecraft) to one lap around a planet sized ball the size of Earth. 

P.s. I forgot the 20 minutes (12 times minus 4 hours from an 8,313 walking distance... eh whatever).  It's a crazy big virtual space THAT is the point here. Plenty, yes, "plenty" of blocks to figure out the numbers like billions and millions.

The first time I decided to figure out what a million meant to me it was 3 years before I ever played Minecraft. July 2012. I started a paper performance art project to see how long it would take for me to create one million money sized slips of art. As of my last post there to IG, (two weeks ago? How helpful Instagram) From July 2012 to Sept 2024 I’m at 36,200 art slips. 

I've got an entire blog about it. Ink Clay at Blogspot if you are curious. 

This post is long enough. Tune in next post to find out more about the 'M' rail East or the insanity of 'b' the billion block area, from zero to 1,000,000 by 1,000 blocks wide. ('M' x k = a billion). 

P.s. Eh, big numbers, what to they mean anyways? 

The human species, the UN estimate has the world population first reaching 1 billion people in 1804. 

Current events since quote Wikipedia page Billionaire -- As of 2021, eight people have reached the status of USD centibillionaires, meaning that each has had a net worth of at least $100 billion.