WASHINGTON - Let's face it: A trillion dollars is the new billion dollars. ... WASHINGTON - Let's face it: A trillion dollars is the new billion dollars. ... Both are unimaginable sums unless you can visualize, say, a stack of dollar bills 68 miles high, and that's just a billion.
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If a stack of trillion dollars was only 500 feet tall, each dollar bill would be 0.000000006 of an inch thick which is MUCH MUCH MUCH thinner than the finest human hair. The present sized currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is .0043 inches.
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Have you ever though about it. What would 1 trillion dollars look like, layed out in front of you? ... Your last graphic is incorrect. If $1 billion is ten pallets, $1 trillion would be 10,000 pallets. This is a stack 100 (50x2) pallets wide by 100 (50x2) deep. The stack in the graphic is 50 wide, but the depth is 100...
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But, how many is a "trillion" dollars? If we all decided to all pitch in and pay off just the first $5 trillion of the federal debt at the rate of $1.00 (one dollar) per second, it would take us around 160,000 years. ... A tightly-packed stack of crisp new $1000 bills, totaling $5 billion, would be 315 miles tall.
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A trillion dollars: A Stack of 1000 dollar bills 100km high $1 trillion tightly packed up in $1,000 bills would create a pile 100km high. And .... the ... RE: A trillion dollars: A Stack of 1000 dollar bills 100km h...
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I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack when it comes to math, but I wanted to imagine what a trillion dollars looks like. My former colleague at Cornell, Carl Sagan, used to speak of the number of Stars in the Universe as being "billions and billions". ... So how tall is a stack of a trillion $1 bills? I'm sure someone...
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It's official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all. ... Should a trillion dollars be enough? How about three or more, depending on how you look...
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What's a trillion dollars? ... One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills.
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To the actual millionaire a million dollars is something real and comprehensible. To the applied mathematician and the lecturer in economics (assuming both to ... Earlier this month, the U.S. government's official debt topped $7 trillion for the first time. ... If his fortune were in $1 bills, it would stack up 2,200 miles.
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