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1. 07:47 PM - How much is a trillion dollars? (nico css)
2. 08:42 PM - Re: How much is a trillion dollars? ()
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| Subject: | How much is a trillion dollars? |
A dollar bill is 6 1/8th inches long and 2 5/8 inches wide. If we lay $1
bills longways end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch about 96.6
million miles or 3,866 times around the earth. That's 3 million miles beyond
the sun.
And not a dime of it has been or will be spent by you. Congress alone is
responsible for burning that money. You alone can change it.
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| Subject: | Re: How much is a trillion dollars? |
That's pretty shocking.
Not meaning to detract from Nico's message, but the terms dollars and
billion struck a chord, so I thought I'd share this:
When I went to school in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and later South
Africa, we used the long scale, so a billion was a million million (12
zeroes) and a trillion was a million million million (18 zeroes).
Today's short-scale billion (1,000,000,000) was called a milliard.
But what is interesting is that Zimbabwe has recently released a
$100-trillion dollar note. See here:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=nw200901
16083851567C343497 Note though: this is *after* they lopped off ten
zeroes from the currency in August last year. The note is worth about
US$300.
Sad.
God bless,
Andrew
A dollar bill is 6 1/8th inches long and 2 5/8 inches wide. If we lay
$1 bills longways end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch about
96.6 million miles or 3,866 times around the earth. That's 3 million
miles beyond the sun.
And not a dime of it has been or will be spent by you. Congress alone
is responsible for burning that money. You alone can change it.
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