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andrew.bridget(at)telus.n
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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject: How much is a trillion dollars? |
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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=nw20090116083851567C343497 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
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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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bobf(at)feldtman.com
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: How much is a trillion dollars? |
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As a professor of surgery I try to make a visual comparison as I teach medical students. I ask "how much do we spend on health care inn USA?" they don't know - it is 2.2 trillion. so then I give the visual - a stack of fresh 1000 dollar bills is 8 inches high - billion is 300 feet high, trillion is 23 miles high.
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM, nico css <nico(at)cybersuperstore.com (nico(at)cybersuperstore.com)> wrote:
[quote] 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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