Which sounds bigger – a thousand billion or a million million? Ahh, what’s it matter? A trillion is a really big number, right? Well, if someone wanted to count to a trillion it would take them almost 32,000 years according to at least one internet estimate. To a computer, counting to a trillion is trivial. Over the past few years, Microsoft has taken to promoting the number of “security signals” they monitor on a daily basis, and that number is up to 24 trillion, or, a trillion an hour – trivial, especially when you have the power of the internet behind you.
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