---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 01/17/09: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:47 PM - How much is a trillion dollars? (nico css) 2. 08:42 PM - Re: How much is a trillion dollars? () ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:47:28 PM PST US From: "nico css" Subject: Commander-List: 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. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:42:17 PM PST US From: Subject: Re: Commander-List: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message commander-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Commander-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/commander-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/commander-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.