# Another day, another dollar... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548 "2010-12-01T16:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedman)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/1 "2010-12-01T16:28:52Z")
A million days, a million dollars. Heard this expression all my life and I guess it’s pretty funny in the right context. But, how long IS a million days? Math isn’t my strong suite; I worked on this until I remembered that leap years need to be accounted for and said the heck with it and gave up. Any Dopers with awesome math skills want to figure it out? CedricR. ---
**Author:** ![ramel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ramel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ramel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/2 "2010-12-01T16:33:07Z")
1,000,000 / 365.242374 = 2737.908 years ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/3 "2010-12-01T16:33:28Z")
1,000,000/365.25=2737.85079 years or 2,737 years, 10 months and about 5-6 days. **ramel** must’ve got me by a couple of seconds! And has better numbers. Touche my friend.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/4 "2010-12-01T16:34:40Z")
Why worry about the leap year days? It’s on the order of 2739 years. That’s high end due to ignoring leap years, it will be a year and a bit out, but thats a couple of orders of magnitude less than 1% ---
**Author:** ![Ruminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Ruminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruminator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/5 "2010-12-01T16:36:58Z")
> [@cedman](#): > > Math isn’t my strong suite; I worked on this until I remembered that leap years need to be accounted for and said the heck with it and gave up. Any Dopers with awesome math skills want to figure it out? I cheated and didn’t use any math… > **[today + 1000000 - Wolfram|Alpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=today%2B%2B%2B1000000)** > > Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. I don’t know for sure if their answer is actually correct. Btw, I had to massage the input into wolframalpha by inserting “today”. If you just enter “100000 days” like this: > **[1000000 days - Wolfram|Alpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000000%2Bdays)** > > Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. … you don’t get the answer spelled out in years-months-days. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/6 "2010-12-01T22:16:17Z")
The number of leap years to account for, let us note, will vary depending on exactly when one starts the million day period. But, as noted, their effect is pretty much insignificant in comparison to the magnitude of the thing. ---
**Author:** ![cedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedman)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/7 "2010-12-01T22:52:27Z")
With that kind of a pay scale, better live a long time to become a millionare. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/8 "2010-12-01T23:04:06Z")
Who does that VW song, y’all? I think it ROCKS! Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/9 "2010-12-01T23:06:27Z")
[Wynn Stewart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53pc0rLBbuM) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-dollar/562548/10 "2010-12-01T23:19:53Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > [Wynn Stewart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53pc0rLBbuM) You just made my night, **Indistinguishable** , thank you!🙂 Although I am primarily a drummer, I do play a little accoustic and I’ve been looking for a song to pick and grin for my family for the holidays. I love the line about “my family is my Thanksgiving”… I had never heard that song in its entirety before and I love it even more now that I know it isn’t just a commercial. Thank you once again, **Indistinguishable**. Bill