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100 Billion $1 dollar bills stacked end to end could circle the Earth 200 times and go to the Moon and back 10 times

M. Wallace

M. Wallace

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Horizontal around the earth and vertical to the moon, not one or the other, but both. Sorry for the random thread, but that blew my mind lol.

Taken from this video, which is amazing in general. All about Big Numbers. Good stuff. I time stamped this particular part. Neil is a treasure btw.


View: https://youtu.be/YPenDUY68rM?t=163
 
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Squarehard

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'll have to test this out personally. Someone loan me 100 Billion $1 bills.

I promise I'll give it back after I'm done "testing".
 
Temp_User

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One million seconds is around 12 days, one billion seconds is 32 years.

~Manfredi, Holocroft Covenant
 
Tranquility

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I visited a government money printing plant here in Sweden once. On just one pallet there were 500 SEK bills totalling 125 million SEK which is more than $10 million USD.
 
Nappuccino

Nappuccino

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Sounds more like you have a ten-stack of bills going to the moon once.

Check mate. Gotem.
 
Arex

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Yeah anything above billion is exponentially crazy amount really if you're to put it into physical size.
 
Chimpzy

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A 1 dollar bill is 6.14 inch or ~155.96 mm. 100 billion of them arranged end to end would net you 9 690 656 miles or some 15 595 600 km.

Enough to go around the Earth at the equator 200 times and then to the Moon and back almost 10 times

Last return trip from the Moon would come up a bit short tho
 
Coyote Starrk

Coyote Starrk

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Squarehard said:
I'll have to test this out personally. Someone loan me 100 Billion $1 bills.

I promise I'll give it back after I'm done "testing".
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This person is a straight up scam artist.

Give me just 1/4 of that and I will perform the same experiment and then simply use math to complete it.


I promise to give the money back 🙂
 
Pargon

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Oct 27, 2017
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Americans will use anything but the metric system...

But really though, that's one of those things that means nothing to me.
I can't picture any part of that. What is it supposed to illustrate?

The million/billion seconds is a great example to demonstrate the difference in scale, however.
 
Vicman

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One billion in Spanish (billón) is one millionth of a million. This might apply to other languages I don't know.
 
Chimpzy

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Edmond Dantès said:
I wonder how many $1 bills it would take to reach the edge of our Solar System?
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Global GDP for 2023 is estimated at about 105 trillion dollar. That gets you some 16 375 380 000 kilometers. That's over 3 times to distance from the Sun to Pluto. Anyway, the edge of the Solar System is estimated to be about 15 billion km from the Sun.

So one global GDP of 1$ bills could stretch into interstellar space.
 
CaptainMatilder

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10^6 vs 10^9

Million vs Milliard

It's a shitton of anything. Especially money.
 
AniHawk

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if bill gate's net worth increased by a million dollars every day of his life from the day he was born and never decreased, he would be worth $24.947 billion today. his actual net worth is $100 billion more than that.

if elon musk's net worth increased by five million dollars every day of his life from the day he was born and never decreased, he would be worth $96.1 billion today. his actual net worth is $100 billion more than that.
 
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