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Visualizing numbers: One trillion dollars, or 1 followed by 12 zeros, is lots of money but have you ever wonder how big that number actually is? ... Courtesy the credit crisis and big bailout packages, the figure “trillion” has suddenly become part of our everyday conversations. One trillion dollars, or 1 followed by...
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www.labnol.org/internet/visualize-numbers-how-big-is-tr...
www.labnol.org/internet/visualize-numbers-how-big-is-trillion-dollars/7814/
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One trillion stacked dollars would reach nearly 60,000 miles, one-third way to moon; ... To provide some perspective on just how big a trillion dollars is, think about it like this: A trillion dollars is the number 1 followed by 12 zeroes.
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www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/04/trillion.dollars/
www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/04/trillion.dollars/
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Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros. ... So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about...
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www.nokilling.org/one_trillion/index.html
www.nokilling.org/one_trillion/index.html
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I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like. We'll start with a $100 dollar bill...
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
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Of course, a billion dollars is a drop in the bucket for the US government. The US budget (for one year) is well over a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) dollars (a trillion is called a billion outside the USA, for logical reasons).
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www.jimloy.com/math/trillion.htm
www.jimloy.com/math/trillion.htm
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That said, I do think that one needs to place that "one trillion" into context --; Simply put, "How long does it take for the USA to make one trillion dollars"? A: about 25 1/2 days.
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mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-big-is-one-trillion-10...
mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-big-is-one-trillion-1000000000000.html
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One trillion dollars in one hundred dollar bills, laid end to end, would circle the equator 3,900 times. ... One atom bomb in Los Angeles would wipe out the movie industry, what was left of the television industry (much of which went with Manhattan), and could create enough seismic vibrations to set off The Big One.
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www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/405.htm
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$1 trillion tightly packed up in $1,000 bills would create a pile 100km high. And .... the US is more than 8 trillion in the hole! ... RE: A trillion dollars: A Stack of 1000 dollar bills 100km h ... Canadian Forums » Politics » International Politics » A trillion dollars: A Stack of 1000 dollar bills 100km high...
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forums.canadiancontent.net/international-politics/36025...
forums.canadiancontent.net/international-politics/36025-trillion-dollars-stack-1000-dollar.html
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Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media ... One trillion dollars is an almost incomprehensibly large amount of money. To help put it in perspective, here are some more comparisons… ... Of course, he didn’t mention that when he made a big show, during his 2000 campaign, about giving a $500...
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dangerousintersection.org/?p=1274
dangerousintersection.org/?p=1274
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