What are in the quadrillions?

Imagine you have a pile of jellybeans so big it could fill a whole swimming pool, that’s what we mean when we say something is in the quadrillions.

A quadrillion is a number with 15 zeros: 1,000,000,000,000,000. That’s like counting all the jellybeans in a thousand swimming pools full of jellybeans!

Let’s say you have one quadrillion jellybeans.

• If you ate 100 jellybeans every day, it would take you about 2.7 million years to finish them all.
• That’s like eating jellybeans for the entire time dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and then some!

So when we talk about things in the quadrillions, we’re talking about something really, really big, much bigger than anything you might see on a regular day, but still something you can imagine with a little help from jellybeans!