Thursday, April 2, 2009

How much space does a trillion dollars occupy?

Someone sent me a neat site today that actually lets you visualize a trillion dollars.  When you actually see how much space a trillion dollars takes up in $100 bills it is really amazing. They show different views of the money starting with how much 1 million dollars occupy and working their way up, by the way 1 billion occupies 10 pallets of $100 dollar bills.

What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

$1,000,000,000,000

Another way of thinking about trillions is as follows: - one million seconds is about 11 days - one billion seconds is about 30 years - one trillion seconds 30 thousand years

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