Long count

To the editor:

One billion dollars.

If someone were to offer you a dollar a second until you received $1 billion, would you be willing to stand there until you received the entire amount? Judge Bullock’s decision on the school-finance formula decreed that Kansans should come up with $1 billion to fix the formula. Please figure out how long it would take to receive the billion dollars at $1 dollar a second. The answer? About 32 years.

Leo Kerwin,

Wellsville