Look at that! I’m a winner! it says so! There’s only been fourteen and a half billion other winners before me, that’s how special I am.

A billion is a big number, you can’t comprehend its size. There are 61 million people in the UK, and you probably know about ten of them properly, and there is an estimated six billion people in the world. A billion is not just “a thousand million” because that’s like saying infinity is just a really big number. Here’s a graph to prove it…