Dunno if it's true

[elysiangirl]

BUT.

I've seen it a couple of places and heard it so I thought I'd share it.

If one took enough S1000 bills to create a million dollars, that stack would be about 4" high.

One trillion dollars?

64-69 MILES high.

Holy moly them's a lot of bills. I could cut coupons and scrape by on 64 miles worth of stacked ONE dollar bills.

Comments

[jr0124]

If I'm reading your post right, you're saying $1,000 bills stacked 64 miles high would be $1 trillion. If that's the case, and we're using US denominations of billion, trillion and million, even if you reduced the denomination to $1, 64 miles of $1 bills would still be $1 billion.

I don't think you'd need coupons. =)

[elysiangirl]

you may be right. i could probably get by with just the sale papers. ;)

[68024]

Let's see how accurate that might be... 4" divided by 1,000 bills = 0.004 inch per bill. Sounds reasonable.

So $1 million = 1,000x$1,000 = 1,000x0.004" = 4".

then $1 billion = 1,000x$1 million = 1,000x4" = 4,000" = 333 feet and 4 inches.

Now $1 trillion = 1,000x$1 billion = 1,000x4000" = 4,000,000 inches, which is 333,333 feet and 4 inches, which is 63 miles, 693 feet, and 4 inches!

So yes, the calculation checks out!

[elysiangirl]

heyyyy right on!