Large numbers are very often hard to comprehend. Not just the fact that they are large, I think we would all agree that 1 mbillion is a lot. But just how much is it? Well the MegaPenny Project seeks to answer that question.

Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it’s still hard to grasp just how much a “billion” really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: “What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?”

On top of the display of the numbers in a manner easy to comprehend, it even gives you information like how much all those pennies would weigh. I never realized $10 in pennies weighs over 6 pounds. It’s an interesting site none the less.