📝Plain text

1 block = 1 page

📃≈ 1,500 pages

single-spaced pages

At about 500 words per single-spaced page, 750,000 words fills roughly 1,500 pages — a stack of paper about 15 cm (6 in) tall.

basis: 500 words per page

1 block = 4,000 characters

🔤≈ 4,000,000 characters

characters of text

One token is roughly 4 characters of English text, so a million tokens is about 4 million characters — enough to fill 8,000 standard text messages.

basis: 1 token ≈ 4 characters

1 block = 10 paragraphs

📄≈ 10,000 paragraphs

paragraphs of text

An average paragraph is about 75 words (~100 tokens). A million tokens is roughly 10,000 paragraphs — a library of essays.

basis: ~75 words per paragraph

1 block = 50 sentences

💬≈ 50,000 sentences

sentences

The average English sentence is about 15 words (~20 tokens). A million tokens is roughly 50,000 sentences.

basis: ~15 words per sentence

1 block = 1 T&C agreement

📜≈ 125 Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions agreements

The average social media Terms & Conditions is about 6,000 words (~8,000 tokens). A million tokens is 125 of them — still less than what you've blindly agreed to this year.

basis: ~6,000 words per T&C

1 block = 10 manuals

🔩≈ 15,000 IKEA manuals

IKEA instruction manuals

An IKEA manual averages about 50 words of actual text (~67 tokens) — they're mostly pictures of confused stick figures. A million tokens is 15,000 of them. You'd still build the shelf wrong.

basis: ~50 words per manual

1 block = 1 article

🌐≈ 1,000 Wikipedia articles

average Wikipedia articles

The average Wikipedia article is about 725 words (~970 tokens), so a million tokens is roughly a thousand articles of general knowledge.

basis: ~725 words per article