PMM
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$7,000,000,000
Oct 07, 2008, 15:01
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A dollar is approximately 6 inches wide by 2.5 inches high.
The square root of 7 billion is 83666.002653407554797817202578519
From this information, it is possible to work out that if you were to put 7 billion greenbacks flat on the ground in a square grid, they would cover an area of about 501,996 inches by 209,165 inches.
There are 12 inches in a foot. So that's 41833 feet by 17430 feet.
5280 feet make a mile, so 7 billion dollars would cover an area of 7.9 miles by 3.3 miles. That's just a little bit over 26 square miles.
That, by the way, is just a little bit smaller than the island of Guernsey.
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handofdave
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Re: $7,000,000,000
Oct 07, 2008, 15:27
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PMM wrote: 5280 feet make a mile, so 7 billion dollars would cover an area of 7.9 miles by 3.3 miles. That's just a little bit over 26 square miles.
I think we should get Christo involved.
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PMM
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Edited Oct 07, 2008, 15:53
Duh!
Oct 07, 2008, 15:51
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Of course, what I was attempting to visualise was not 7 billion dollars, but 7 hundred billion dollars.
That, being 100 times larger is 260 square miles. About the size of Menorca :)
Or you could cover Guernsey with 100 dollar bills (assuming that they are the same size as 1 dollar bills)
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PMM
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Re: Duh!
Oct 07, 2008, 22:54
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Or you could put them end to end in a big long line.
That line would be 350 billion feet long, and there's 5280 feet in a mile so the line would stretch for 66,287,878 miles. That's to the moon and back 130 times, or 2/3rds of the way to the sun.
It's also about $100 for every single man woman and child on the planet. I shall forgo mine. Give it to some poor bugger in Chad or Sudan or something.
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Penske666
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Re: Duh!
Oct 10, 2008, 11:28
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How much is it worth in scrap metal?
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Deepinder Cheema
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Edited Oct 31, 2008, 12:21
Re: Duh!
Oct 31, 2008, 12:19
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I think it would be interesting to calculate the length of the side of the cube containing $7,000,000,000 So we need the average thickness of one dollar and the cube root of its combined volume.
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zphage
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Re: Duh!
Oct 31, 2008, 15:54
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PMM wrote: Of course, what I was attempting to visualise was not 7 billion dollars, but 7 hundred billion dollars.
That, being 100 times larger is 260 square miles. About the size of Menorca :)
Or you could cover Guernsey with 100 dollar bills (assuming that they are the same size as 1 dollar bills)
All greenbacks are the same size regardless of value, interesting article on large denominations issued in 1929, stopped printing in 1945, and halted all together in 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
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Shelby Mustang
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Re: $7,000,000,000
Oct 31, 2008, 21:18
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ha. but red chifon suits tower blocks more than mouldy green me old mate
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the dog
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Re: $7,000,000,000
Oct 31, 2008, 23:28
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1,000,000 seconds equals 12 days...
1,000,000,000 seconds equals 32 years.... which means that if you spend $1 a second, it would take 230 years to spend it all...
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Shelby Mustang
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Re: $7,000,000,000
Nov 01, 2008, 09:51
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or alternately get my missus in a funky shoe shop and she'd do the lot in one saturday afternoon !
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