[Okay, she can work this out. It's a number, right? (She's not sure what "point" means, but she'll put that aside for now.) It kind of sounds like a million, but the spaces below million are taken. So it's more than a million. But with how numbers she knows works, the next spot someone might put a name would have to be either a thousand million or a million million. Either way is mind-boggling.]
Billion people? That's...how do you fit that many people -- and there are eight other planets?
[She's picturing this as eight other fully human-stocked worlds, which is just making her ability to grasp the number more difficult.]
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[Okay, she can work this out. It's a number, right? (She's not sure what "point" means, but she'll put that aside for now.) It kind of sounds like a million, but the spaces below million are taken. So it's more than a million. But with how numbers she knows works, the next spot someone might put a name would have to be either a thousand million or a million million. Either way is mind-boggling.]
Billion people? That's...how do you fit that many people -- and there are eight other planets?
[She's picturing this as eight other fully human-stocked worlds, which is just making her ability to grasp the number more difficult.]