What is 100 billion?

100 billion is a really big number, like having 100 times as many toys as a huge toy box.

Imagine you have a piggy bank that holds 1,000 pennies, that's what we call 1 thousand. Now imagine you had 100 of those piggy banks full of pennies. That would be 100,000 pennies, or 100 thousand.

But if you had 100 of those groups, that’s 10 million, like a mountain of pennies!

Now imagine you have 100 of those mountains of pennies. That’s 1 billion, it would fill up a whole room with shiny coins!

So, to get to 100 billion, you just go one step further, that’s 100 rooms full of pennies! It's like having a hundred times the money in a million-dollar house.

If you saved $1 every day, it would take you almost 274 years to save 100 billion dollars, that’s more than twice as long as your whole lifetime!