How big is a billion?

"1,000,000,000" doesn't cut it.

A billion is far too large to understand by merely seeing a one followed by 9 zeroes.

But the best way to understand the size of a billion is to do what we do best...

Scroll!

This 1 pixel thick line represents 100.

I tried representing 1 pixel with the number 10 but that generated a page that went far beyond the mathematical limits of the modern webpage...
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