03-19-2009, 04:33 PM
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I'm nuts for the place
Join Date: Feb 2009
First Name: James
Location: Lexington, KY
Posts: 3,322
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Re: Trillion?!?!?
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Originally Posted by mhailey
my professor in college brought in 1000 $1 bills and it ws roughly 1 foot high.
if that was $100 bills, then it would have been $100,000.
so $1million would have been 10 feet high
$10million would have been 100 feet high
$100million would have been 1000 feelt high
$1billion would have been 10,000 feet high
$10billion would be 100,000 feet high
$100billion would be 1,000,000 feet high
$1trillion would be 10,000,000 feet high
out national debt is now over $5trillion, sothat is over 50,000,000 feet high
That is 9,469.7 miles high of $100 bills one on top of eachother.
That is from New York to Syndey Australia.
How can we pay this off?
Matt
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Thanks for posting that. Actually allows people to grasp how large the numbers really are. I am scared that everyone is now "used" to words like billion and trillion!
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