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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