History - Dangerous Intersection

Understanding a billion

Post author:grumpypilgrim
Post published:March 23, 2006
Post category:Current Events Iraq
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A dollar bill is approximately 0.0035" thick. So, a stack of one billion dollar bills would be 55.24 miles high. A stack of 224 billion dollar bills (the approximate cost so far of invading Iraq) would be 12,373.76 miles high. That's halfway around the earth's equator (the earth's circumference is 24,900…

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