What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

[heathenbrewing]

This post is meant to be educational, not inflammatory (Hope the mods agree), so lets keep politics out of it.

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Nowadays, trillion is the new billion and I think that it is such a large unit of measure, most people cant wrap their heads around it. Its a million million dollars.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words....

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

Enjoy!

 

[Tempest]

Quote:
There are 60 seconds in a minite so you would count $60 in one minute.
There are 60 minutes in an hour so you would count 60x60 = $3600 in one hour.
There are 24 hours in a day so you would count 24X60x60 = $8,6400 in one day.
There are 365 days in a year so you would count 24X60x60x365 = $31,536,000 in one year.

To find how long it would take to count to a trillion dollars divide 1 trillion by 31,536,000. That is 1,000,000,000,000/31,536,000 = 31,709.79 years.

http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.99/keck1.html

 

[mormit]

Looks like a heck of a lot of bailing us out of years of inept management dragging us under.

Hope we all keep our nose above water.

 

[Tempest]

Quote:
In Fiscal Year 2008, the U. S. Government spent $412 Billion of your money on interest payments* to the holders of the National Debt. Compare that to NASA at $15 Billion, Education at $61 Billion, and Department of Transportation at $56 Billion. -- As of March 2009, the total interest spent so far this fiscal year is $169 Billion.

The interest expense paid on the National Debt is the third largest expense in the federal budget.

http://www.federalbudget.com/

 

[TallPaul]

Try making a computer file with a Trillion periods or dots in it.

Maybe on a spreadsheet, if you fill one cell with say 100 dots (size the cell appropriately) then copy and paste, wow how long would it take to do that?

 

[LAGA]

Triple the size of the pile and that is how much the war in Iraq is going to cost.

 

[heathenbrewing]

Ive read a few different peopel describe what a trillion $ is, but the animations really bring home just how much money it is.

Did you notice the link at the bottom that shows you what the national debt looks like?
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/usdebt.html

F'in NUTS!

 

[Samilcar]

We really need to have a $1,000 bill. Cut down on the number of pallets of cash that get shuffled around.

And get rid of the danged penny already!

 

[firemachine69]

No way. How else would we scratch a lotto ticket?

 

[Tempest]

$412 billion (US debt payment last year) / 8760 hours (1 year) = $47 MILLION per HOUR

And the deficit spending continues...

 

[Kruse]

Originally Posted By: Samilcar
We really need to have a $1,000 bill. Cut down on the number of pallets of cash that get shuffled around.



Before the times of electronic bank transfer, they printed a $100,000 bill. Anymore, by government standards, that's chump change.