One trillion is a large number -- very large.

Here's a sense of how big it truly is: If you began counting aloud, taking one second for every number, it would take you more than 30,000 years to reach 1 trillion.

This same scale applies when talking about $1 trillion. It's a difficult number to wrap your head around, but, at any rate, it's a lot of money.

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