How Far Would 14.3 Trillion Dollar Bills Take You?
A dollar bill is 6.14" long. If you multiply that by 14.3T you get 87,802,000,000,000 inches. If you divide the roughly 87.8T inches by 12, you get 7,316,833,333,333 feet. If you divide this figure by 5,280 you get 1,385,763,888 miles.
To double check my math, 5280 feet x 12" = 63,360". So there's 63,360 inches in a mile. Divide 63,360 by 6.14" length of dollar bill, you get about 10,319.22 dollar bills, laid end to end, to equate to one mile. If you multiply the 10,319 dollar bills laid end to end to make a mile by the 1,385,763,888 miles I calculated above, that should come up to just under 14.3 trillion. I rounded down.
So just how far would our debt extend, if laid end to end with $1 bills?
Jupiter gets as close as 365 million miles to Earth. That means that you could lay $1 dollar bills end to end from Earth, make it to Jupiter, come back to Earth, go back to Jupiter again & still have nearly 291 million miles left to go.
Our equator is 24,900 miles. Laying $1 bills end to end would allow you to circle the equator 55, 650 times. Or if you laid $100 bills end to end around the equator, you'd only have to circle the equator 556 times.
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How much does the stimulus weigh? Submitted by Tim Fowler on Wed, 2009-02-18 20:34 Public It will mostly be spent electronically, or in printed checks which can be for large amounts, but what if it was in actual US currency?
I'll round off the amount to $800bil (obviously I'm not including interest, or other stimulus and bailout bills, or the fact that a good chunk of the "temporary" spending, is likely to be permanent)
A dollar bill weighs a gram. That makes it convenient to use metric measurements. So I'll give the weight in metric tons. $800bil would weigh 800 billion grams, or 800 million kilograms, or 800,000 metric tons. (roughly the weight of all 10 Nimitz class aircraft carriers)
If you want that in a more convenient form using 100 dollar bills it would be 8000 metric tons (about the weight of a cruiser).
What if it was in pennies. A penny weighs 2.5 grams.
1000 grams makes a kilogram, 1000 kilograms is a metric ton, so its 1,000,000 grams per metric ton.
1,000,000 grams divided by 2.5 (2.5 grams per penny) is 400,000. So you have 400,000 pennies per metric ton. Divide by 100 and you get 4000. So a ton of pennies is $4000.
800 billion divided by 4000, is 200 million.
So the stimulus in pennies would weight 200 million metric tons (roughly the weight of all the garbage produced in the US per year, a fitting weight comparison for this bill don't you think?)
Earlier I did different calculations based on a trillion dollar stimulus. That would be a dollar a second for over 31,000 years, or if you lay the bills end to end they would reach from the earth to the sun.
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