A Trillion Dollars

[Rob_W]

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?, and yes, i know its Dollars but...

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? 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. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet.

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere.

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.

You ready for this? It's pretty surprising.

 

[Merovingian]

Interesting stuff

As a idea of what this means in terms of produce, this........

....is a 14th of the US GDP!!


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[OutLore]

I've always wondered this:

Why is 1 billion only 1000 million? Surely to "move" to the next level of numbers, you need to get to the point where you are multiplying the number by itself;

so effectively you could have 100,000 million - except it's considered to be 100 billion...

Doesn't make sense to me....:shrug:

 

[Just Dave]

My aunty Gave me an Obama $0 bill

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[JPS]

I've always wondered this:

Why is 1 billion only 1000 million? Surely to "move" to the next level of numbers, you need to get to the point where you are multiplying the number by itself;

so effectively you could have 100,000 million - except it's considered to be 100 billion...

Doesn't make sense to me....:shrug:

That's all to do with the differences of the UK and US versions of a Billion and a Trillion. The numbers spoken here are for the US version of a trillion. Unfortunately the world (including the UK) has followed suit with the Americans and accept their ideas of a Billion and Trillion to be the units in use. Although to be honest if you were a true UK billionaire, then you really would need large pockets to carry the cash around in.

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Back in 1924 when the German currency hit rock bottom and they had to introduce a new one the new Reichsmark was worth 1 trillion (the American version) Papiermark (the old currency)......