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11-29-2009, 07:28 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Kville
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M.O.C. #7871
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A Trillion Dollars
With the buffoons in Washington tossing around the term "trillion dollars" I wondered how much that is in numbers I can understand...here it is:
One Trillion Dollars:
- one million million.
- one thousand billion.
- a 1 followed by 12 zeros, or,
- 1,000,000,000,000.
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11-29-2009, 10:25 AM
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Montana Master
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M.O.C. #6650
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Tom I agree, but I have to be careful in what I say. It doesn't look as though anyone is listening.... GBY......
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11-29-2009, 10:28 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Washburn
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M.O.C. #1782
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Remember when Sen Everette Dirkson of Illinois used to say,"a million here and a million there and pretty soon you're talking about real money"?
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11-30-2009, 04:43 AM
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Montana Fan
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Location: Kamloops
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M.O.C. #9238
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To put things in another perspective, I was bored and used Google Answers (I was shocked at the results)
A million in $100 dollar bills is a stack 48.82 inches, say 4 feet in round figures high.
A billion .................................................. 4,000 feet = 2.27 miles high
A Trillion.......................................... ........4,000,000 feet= 2,272.72 miles high.
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11-30-2009, 10:16 AM
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Montana Master
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Location: Bakersfield
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M.O.C. #15
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"A billion .................................................. 4,000 feet = 2.27 miles high"
I thought a mile was 5,280 feet. So 4,000 feet would not even be a mile. Did I miss something?
But no matter how you stack it that is a lot of $$$$$$!
HamRad
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12-01-2009, 02:08 AM
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Montana Fan
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Location: Kamloops
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M.O.C. #9238
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Oops! My math was out, you're right. I divided by 1760, yards, not feet.
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12-02-2009, 08:50 AM
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Montana Master
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Location: Waterford
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M.O.C. #7500
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by Sinterior
Oops! My math was out, you're right. I divided by 1760, yards, not feet.
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That dang 'new math'!
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