This is one of my pet peeves. Some numbers are so large as to not be intelligible to my brain.  I mean once you have gotten above about 700 calories, who cares what that piece of chocolate cake is going to do to your hips?  I just can't put that in perspective.

Well, presenters of all things numeric, take heed.  This is my favorite cool website of the day - its called Sensible Units.  Just go to this site, type in your number and associated units of measure and it will convert it to some meaningful and interesting data.  AKA - presentation fodder!

I entered 1,000,000 inches (wishful thinking) and here is what it produced as equivalents to help me put that in perspective:

23 Table Mountains. (The one in Capetown, I think.)
5.3 Mont Blancs. (I'm guessing they're talking about the mountains, not the pens.)
31 Burj Dubais (after completion).
46 CN Towers.

Now I need to put in "31 Burj Dubais" and figure out what that means - but you see how cool this can be.

It needs to have a similar conversion utility for dollars and then I could translate my next financial statement into 4 pairs of Manolo Blahniks, 6 Coach Handbags, 47 Eileen Fisher Blouses, and 474 Grande Lattes.  Now we are getting somewhere.  

 
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