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zphage
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Re: Duh!
Oct 31, 2008, 15:54
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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