Just how much is a billion dollars (Pounds)

[John Lloyd]

Just found this graphic illustration of how much money, albeit dollars is in a Billion. Even giving the differences between US Billion and UK Billion, a Hundred Blats is a hundred Blats.

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

A Billion Blats is a lot of Cash.

A Trillion is mind Boggling.

How much do we owe?????

As for The United States debt as of March 2009:

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

Now that is one credit card bill!

 

[Talk Wrench]

We probably owe Brazilians DT_Xtremez_42:



TW

 

[needsabiggerfuse]

This is a good site for illustrating numbers. It's American, but 1 cent is about the same size as 1 pence.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/

 

[AbuNajiWaterRat]

[QUOTENow that is one credit card bill![/QUOTE]

I hope it is on a credit card otherwise thats a lot of rainforest!

 

[Tubby]

We sitched to the American standards for billions in 1974, so 1billion is equal to 1000 million. Still a shed load of money.

 

[Gunnerrock]

Sat on an OP once bored....Worked out that if you earned £1 a second it would take you about 12 days to earn a million.

However to get a Billion pounds would take approx 36 YEARS!!!

 

[Ex-Bay]

If you stacked the $100 bills up and up, one trillion dollars would get to about 80,000 ft.

 

[needsabiggerfuse]

If you stacked the $100 bills up and up, one trillion dollars would get to about 80,000 ft.

If you had a physically huge piece of thin paper, say cigarette paper thickness. Tore it in half and put the two pieces one on top of the other - tore the pile in half - put the two piles one on top of the other - ... - repeat this exercise 50 times. How high would the pile be?

 

[propersplitbrainme]

If you had a physically huge piece of thin paper, say cigarette paper thickness. Tore it in half and put the two pieces one on top of the other - tore the pile in half - put the two piles one on top of the other - ... - repeat this exercise 50 times. How high would the pile be?

2 to the power of 50 times higher than the thickness of the original sheet of cigarette paper?

 

[needsabiggerfuse]

2 to the power of 50 times higher than the thickness of the original sheet of cigarette paper?

Good. Now how big is that? Shall we assume that the fag paper is say 0.02 mm. Calculators out everybody ...

 

[propersplitbrainme]

Good. Now how big is that? Shall we assume that the fag paper is say 0.02 mm. Calculators out everybody ...

Hmm, looks like about 225,179,981 Km DT_Xtremez_35:

 

[Ex-Bay]

Hmm, looks like about 225,179,981 Km DT_Xtremez_35:

or, to the moon 592-odd times.
Doing it with $100 bills is not as big. The bill is 0.1mm thick, so that's 10,000 per meter.

The Moon is about 380,000 KM away, so that's about
380000000000.00
100-dollar bills.

This works out to about 380 trips to the Moon. (190 round trips)/

 

[Inevertouchedit]

A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion Pounds ago was earlier this morning for Gordon Brown