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!
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