What Does A What Does A Trillion Dollars Trillion Dollars Look Like?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 PennyOne Penny

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

• Let’s start with a penny• Probably have one in your

pocket.

Sixteen PenniesSixteen 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: 16¢ • Width: 12 inches, (one foot) • Height stacked: 1 inch • Thickness: 0.0625 inches, (1/16 of

an inch) • Weight: 1.6 ounces • Area (laid flat): 9 square inches

One Thousand One Thousand PenniesPennies

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

1,000 pennies = [5 pennies wide x 5 pennies high x 40

pennies tall]

Fifty Thousand Fifty Thousand PenniesPennies

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

49,152 Pennies[16w x 16h x 192 tall] - one cubic foot.

100,000 Pennies100,000 Pennies

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

98,304 Penniestwo cubic feet

One Million PenniesOne Million Pennies

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

1,003,776 Pennies [Wall 5’x4’x1’ thick with a 9”x9”x9”

cube]

Ten Million PenniesTen Million Pennies

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)

10,017,024[A cube 6 x 6 x 6 feet]

100 Million Pennies100 Million Pennies

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)

100,016,640[2 cubes, 1-12x12x12 feet, 1-7x7x7

feet]

Ten Million PenniesTen Million Pennies

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)

1,000,018,176[Five school buses]

Ten Billion PenniesTen Billion Pennies

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

10,000,023,552[Fifty school buses]

100 Billion Pennies100 Billion Pennies

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.

100,017,659,336[One cube measuring 127 x 127 x 127

feet]

200 Billion Pennies200 Billion Pennies

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.

200,035,318,672[Two cubes, each 127 x 127 x 127 feet]

One Trillion PenniesOne Trillion Pennies

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

1,000,000,016,640 [One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273

feet]

One Trillion PenniesOne Trillion Pennies

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).

1,000,000,016,640 [One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273

feet]

Fill the Empire State Fill the Empire State BuildingBuilding

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: 5,683,200 tons Height stacked:1,793,939 Miles Area (laid flat): 163,085 acres

1,818,624,000,000

Fill Sears TowerFill Sears Tower

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: 8,199,014 tons Height stacked:2,588,073 Miles Area (laid flat): 235,279.3 acres

2,623,684,608,000

One Quadrillion One Quadrillion PenniesPennies

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.

1,000,067,088,384,000[One cube 2,730 x 2,730 x 2,730 feet]

One Quintillion One Quintillion PenniesPennies

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.

1,000,067,088,384,000,000[1 cube 27,300 x 27,300 x 27,300 feet]

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