Just for fun, someone could probably figure this out

Posted by GaryL 9 years, 3 months ago to Technology
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If I win the power ball now at $1,500,000,000, How big of a truck will I need to deliver it in $100 dollar bills? I already calculated the weight and it looks about 16.5 Tons but I can't do the math on the volume size like it was on pallets.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just think how many tickets we'll all be forced to buy to pay off Obama's share alone. Whatever the number of trucks he doubled them and a bit more. While he's being outaugerated one year and one week and two hours 40 minutes from now EST I plan to have the debt clock running and copy down some of those figures. And post them
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  • Posted by GaryL 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That was cool Michael! Years back I watched a video of how many trucks, flat bed 18 wheelers, it would take in one hundred dollar bills to pay off our national debt. Think the debt was around 12 Trillion then and it was a lot of trucks. Someone or ones will eventually win this ridiculous prize but as you point out the states and federal govt. will certainly get the lions share.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago
    SIZE: US currency bills are are 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long; they are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram. source US Treasury.

    one hundred make a packet so one hunded times one hundred is ten thousand dollars and 100 grams

    .43 " tall 6.14 " long and 2.61" wide. 100 grams

    A stack is ten packs at 4.3" tall, 6.14" long and 2.61" wide worth $100,000. or 1000 grams or one kilo or 2.2 pounds.

    Ten stacks makes one million at one kilo or 2.2 pounds per stack or 22 pounds.

    Twenty stacks fit's in a standard attache case for two million. 44 pounds. 4.3" tall 26.1" wide and 12.28 " the other way in two rows of five.

    1 billion 500 miillion divided by two million

    or the inside space of 750 standard attache cases or 325 of those big kind like piilots use to carry Jeppson charts.

    Since that was inside dimensions go for cubic space of 4.5 x 26.5 by 13 or 1580 cu. inches or .9 cubic feet x 750 or 675 cubic feet and 15.5 long tons or metric tons near enough

    Ten F350 long bed pickups with each handling 67.5 cubic feet should do nicely. Make that 12 and add for the weight of the attache cases.

    but don't worrry after the various state and operator bites, the taxes 39% federal and any state or local income tax. That will rapidly reduce to 750 then 325 give or take attache cases. Fair boggles the mind.....

    To see it in pictures

    http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/millio...

    COMPOSITION: Bills are composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton; red and blue synthetic fibers are distributed throughout the paper. they last about 18-24 months...
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  • Posted by Animal 9 years, 3 months ago
    Can someone calculate the amount of magnification you would need in a microscope to see your odds of winning?
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  • Posted by GaryL 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I did win I am sure the trucking company would do the calculating for me for much less:-))). 10% would be highway robbery and I would have to unfriend you when I build my gulch:-((
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 3 months ago
    I'll calculate it for 1% of 1,500,000,000.00 win or lose
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 3 months ago
    If you win the power ball, I will calculate the truck size for you for 10%. :)
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