1...Million Dots 

1 dot.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• 1 pea

Next: 10 dots

10 dots = 1 x 10.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• 10 peas
• a battery
• a grapefruit

Next: 100 dots

100 dots = 10 x 10.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• 5 bananas
• an umbrella
• a penguin

Next: 1,000 dots

1,000 dots = 10 x 10, ten times.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• a london bus
• a giraffe
• a new long jump world record

Next: 10,000 dots

10,000 dots = 10 x 10, 10 x 10 times.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• a football field
• a yacht
• a blue whale

Next: 100,000 dots

100,000 dots = 10,000, ten times.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• the Burj Khalifa
• the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• a runway

Next: 1,000,000 dots

1,000,000 dots = 10,000, one hundred times.

If each dot was a pea, laid end to end, this would be the same scale of length as:

• a 10k run
• Mount Everest
• Themisto, a moon of Jupiter

What about a billion dots?

1,000,000,000 dots = 1,000,000, one thousand times.

A billion dots is far too large to show here.

• The peas would stretch from London to Tokyo.
• On my computer screen this section would take me well over an hour to scroll using my mouse wheel.
• A million seconds is around 11 days, but a billion seconds is over 31 years.
• However, it takes around 5 hours for the world to take a billion photos, and only 5 minutes to send a billion emails! Perhaps a billion isn't all that large after all!