What Does A Trillion Dollars Look Like? All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts“ . . . A billion dollars . . . A hundred billion dollars . . . Eight hundred billion dollars. . . One Trillion dollars . . . One Quadrillion . . . One Quintillion . . . How much is that? One Penny • Let’s start with a penny • Probably have one in your pocket. Value: 1¢ Width: 3/4 of an inch Height: 3/4 of an inch Thickness: 1/16 of an inch Weight: 1/10 of an ounce Area: 0.5625 square inches Sixteen Pennies • • • • • • To get to big numbers, you have to start small Lay sixteen pennies in a line and you have one foot Stack them and you have an inch Value: Width: Height stacked: Thickness: inch) Weight: Area (laid flat): 16¢ 12 inches, (one foot) 1 inch 0.0625 inches, (1/16 of an 1.6 ounces 9 square inches One Thousand Pennies 1,000 pennies = [5 pennies wide x 5 pennies high x 40 pennies tall] Value: $10.00 Width: 3.75 inches Height: 3.75 inches Thickness: 2.5 inches Weight: 100 ounces, (6.25 pounds) Height stacked: 62.4 inches, (5.2 feet) Area (laid flat): 562.5 square inches 3.9 square feet Fifty Thousand Pennies 49,152 Pennies [16w x 16h x 192 tall] - one cubic foot. Value: $491.52 Width: 12 inches, (one foot) Height: 12 inches, (one foot) Thickness: 12 inches, (one foot) Weight: 4,915.2 ounces, (307.2 pounds) Height stacked: 3,072 inches, (256 feet) Area (laid flat): 192 square feet 100,000 Pennies 98,304 Pennies two cubic feet Value: $983.04 Width: 24 inches, (two feet) Height: 12 inches, (one foot) Thickness: 12 inches, (one foot) Weight: 614.4 pounds Height stacked: 512 feet Area (laid flat): 384 square feet One Million Pennies 1,003,776 Pennies [Wall 5’x4’x1’ thick with a 9”x9”x9” cube] Value: $10,037.76 Width: Four feet Height: Five feet Thickness: 12 inches, (one foot) Weight: 6273.6 pounds (3.14 tons) Height stacked: 5,228 feet ( 0.99 Miles ) Area (laid flat): 3,921 square feet Ten Million Pennies 10,017,024 [A cube 6 x 6 x 6 feet] Value: $100,170.24 Width: Six feet Height: Six feet Thickness: Six feet Weight: 31.3 tons Height stacked: 9.88 Miles Area (laid flat): 39,129 square feet (0.9 acres) 100 Million Pennies 100,016,640 [2 cubes, 1-12x12x12 feet, 1-7x7x7 feet] Value: $1,000,166.40 Width: 12 feet (7 feet) Height: 12 feet (7 feet) Thickness: 12 feet (7 feet) Height stacked: 999 Miles Area (laid flat): 390,690 square feet (9 acres) Total weight: 312.5 tons (adult Blue Whale weighs less than 150 tons) Ten Million Pennies 1,000,018,176 [Five school buses] Value: $10,000,181.76 Width: 45 feet Height: 11 feet Thickness: 41 feet total Weight: 3,125 tons height stacked: 987 Miles Area (laid flat): 3,906,321 square feet (89.7 acres) Ten Billion Pennies 10,000,023,552 [Fifty school buses] Value: $100,000,235.52 Width: 90 feet Height: 11 feet Thickness: 205 feet Total weight: 31,250 tons Height stacked: 9,864 Miles Area (laid flat): 897 acres World's population - six billion people (2 per person) US mint makes this many pennies per year 100 Billion Pennies 100,017,659,336 [One cube measuring 127 x 127 x 127 feet] Value: $1,000,176,593.36 Width: 126.72 feet Height: 126.72 feet Thickness: 126.72 feet Total weight: 312,555.2 tons Height stacked: 98,660 Miles Area (laid flat): 8,969 acres If laid out like a carpet, covers 14 square miles Manhattan Island measures 22 square miles Bulverde measures 10 square miles. 200 Billion Pennies 200,035,318,672 [Two cubes, each 127 x 127 x 127 feet] Value: $2,000,353,186.72 Width: 253.44 feet Height: 126.72 feet Thickness: 126.72 feet Total weight: 625,110.4 tons Height stacked: 197,320 Miles Area (laid flat): 17,938 acres US Mint estimates about 200 billion in circulation First penny was minted in 1787; 300 billion pennies have been minted in the United States. One Trillion Pennies 1,000,000,016,640 [One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273 feet] Value: $10,000,000,166.40 Width: 273 feet Height: 273 feet Thickness: 273 feet Total weight: 3,125,000 tons Height stacked: 986,426 Miles Area (laid flat): 89,675.2 acres One Trillion Pennies 1,000,000,016,640 [One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273 feet] Far right - the same football field Moving left (to scale) ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Lincoln Memorial (on the back of the penny) Washington Monument (555 feet tall) Our cube of one trillion pennies Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall) Sears Tower (1,450 feet tall). Fill the Empire State Building 1,818,624,000,000 New York's Empire State Building contains 37 million cubic feet of space One cubic foot of pennies = 49,152 total 37,000,000 x 49,152 = 1,818,624,000,000 pennies Value:$18,186,240,000.00 Total weight: Height stacked: 1,793,939 Miles Area (laid flat): 163,085 acres 5,683,200 tons Fill Sears Tower 2,623,684,608,000 Chicago's Sears Tower = 53.4 million cubic feet of space One cubic foot = 49,152 pennies 53,379,000 x 49,152 = 2,623,684,608,000 pennies Value:$26,236,846,080.00 Total weight: Height stacked: 2,588,073 Miles Area (laid flat): 235,279.3 acres 8,199,014 tons One Quadrillion Pennies 1,000,067,088,384,000 [One cube 2,730 x 2,730 x 2,730 feet] Value: $10,000,670,883,840.00 Width: 2,730 feet Height: 2,730 feet Thickness: 2,730 feet Total weight: 3,125,000,000 tons Height stacked: 986,426,768 Miles Area (laid flat): 89,675,161 acres Cube is a half-mile wide and weighs three billion tons. One Quintillion Pennies 1,000,067,088,384,000,000 [1 cube 27,300 x 27,300 x 27,300 feet] Value: $10,000,670,883,840,000.00 Width: 27,300 feet Height: 27,300 feet Thickness: 27,300 feet total Weight: 3,125,000,000,000 tons Height stacked: 986,426,767,677 miles Area (laid flat): 89,675,160,698 acres As carpet, cover the surface of the earth – twice Mt. Everest (29,000 ft.) is only 1,700 feet taller. One Google A Very Big Number (1036) duotrigintillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 googol = 10 duotrigintillion One google (1 & 100 zeros) = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000, 000,000 What Does A Trillion Dollars Look Like? A whole bunch