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What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

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Habakuk

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I found this and just want to share it with you. Quite interesting and demonstrative. The author writes:

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.
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http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Maybe someone could pile up MBPs or iPhones for one Trillion dollars that would be even more demonstrative for us here ;-)
 
Thats class! I love it.

Now I just need to get my hands on a load of pallets and start filling them!
 
Some additional info, there's the number missing of a million million (a thousand billion):

1,000,000,000,000​

There are some awkward difficulties with other languages. In German p.e. one trillion is called "eine Billion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion

acearchie said:
Now I just need to get my hands on a load of pallets and start filling them!
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Later on, don't forget the Money Bins like Scrooge McDuck. Don't let get it wet, it's just paper.
 
With all that money, and you could send a number of spacecrafts to the moon, reform healthcare, and develop an alternative fuel source for cars and airplanes far quicker than we'd ever expect......and yet you still couldn't buy a matte screen 15" MBP. :p
 
Abstract said:
With all that money, and you could send a number of spacecrafts to the moon, reform healthcare, and develop an alternative fuel source for cars and airplanes far quicker than we'd ever expect......and yet you still couldn't buy a matte screen 15" MBP. :p
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Somehow I think that with that kind of money, you could bribe Apple to custom build one for you. :p
 
A Trillion. The Iraq War?

Edit: January 7, 2007 New York Times estimate 1.2 trillion, so I guess I underestimated.
 
Mr. lax said:
Thats so much money, like wow!!
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I used to count about $25,000 dollars in mostly small bills, coins, and checks usually under a $100 dollars at a medium sized grocery store, and that was one huge pile to count. It took nearly all day to count it up and get it ready for the bankers.

What's amazing is that picture the OP has depicts crisp $100s.
 
iParis said:
Holy crap that is a lot of money!
I wonder if you could buy out Apple with that much money.
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Absolutely. I'm thinking you could buy out anything with that. The interest alone on that would be 10 billion a year give or take a couple billion
 
btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500,250 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357,270 17 " base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4,366,812 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.
 
wywern209 said:
btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500,250 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357,270 17 " base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4,366,812 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.
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Mind figuring out how many 1GB 2G iPod shuffle's that would buy?:cool:
 
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