What is a "TRILLION"

We are entering the age of the trillion but who apart from seasoned number crunchers knows what it is?

What is a “Trillion”?

"When you hear a politician, business leader of economist using the word trillion, they are talking about a number with 12 zeros,"

So what does a trillion look like?

"It is estimated you can get 50,000 pennies into a cubic foot - a trillion pennies would fill two St Paul's Cathedrals."

Alternatively you may want to compare a million to a trillion by placing a credit card next to Ben Nevis. Then again you can illustrate the scale of this number by comparing the fact that a million seconds equals 11.5 days, a billion seconds is 32 years and a trillion is 32,000 years.
Or, if your brain has not exploded already, there is another calculation you can make.

If you take the typical annual salary as £25,000 a year - how long would it take you to spend a trillion pounds if you spent £25,000 a day.

"The answer is 109,000 years."