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To: Brumar89 who wrote (297639)3/22/2009 4:26:41 PM
From: KLP   of 794094
 
Re Billions and Trillions:

A clip from Sweetness and Light:

By the way, just as a point of comparison, our universe is currently estimated to only be 13 billion years old.

According to my calculations 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) divided by 13 billion (13,000,000,000) is 76.9.

So if you spent one dollar a year since literally the beginning of time, you would have to do it 77 times to reach 1 trillion dollars.

And that is just the price tag for this latest proposed government latest binge
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