The numbers I have in my Anki deck, selected for how likely I am to find practical use of them:
total # hours in a year — 8760
${{c1::200}}k/year = ${{c2::100}}/hour
${{c1::100}}k/year = ${{c2::50}}/hour
# of hours in a working year — 2,000 hours
miles per time zone — ~1,000 miles
california top-to-bottom — 900 miles
US coast-to-coast — 3,000 miles
equator circumference — (before you show the answer, i always find it fun that i can quickly get an approximation by multiplying the # of time zones by the # of miles per time zone!) :::25,000::: miles
US GDP in 2022 — $25 trillion
google’s profit in 2022 — $60 billion
total US political spending per election — ~$5 billion
The numbers I have in my Anki deck, selected for how likely I am to find practical use of them:
total # hours in a year — 8760
${{c1::200}}k/year = ${{c2::100}}/hour
${{c1::100}}k/year = ${{c2::50}}/hour
# of hours in a working year — 2,000 hours
miles per time zone — ~1,000 miles
california top-to-bottom — 900 miles
US coast-to-coast — 3,000 miles
equator circumference — (before you show the answer, i always find it fun that i can quickly get an approximation by multiplying the # of time zones by the # of miles per time zone!) :::25,000::: miles
US GDP in 2022 — $25 trillion
google’s profit in 2022 — $60 billion
total US political spending per election — ~$5 billion
median US salary in 2022 — $75k
LMIC’s GDP per capita in 2022 — $2.5k
world population in 2022 — 8 billion
NYC population in 2022 — 8 million
US population in 2022 — 330 million