How much is a trillion dollars?

[Oolon Colluphid]

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G-20 gives $1 trillion to fight global crisis

LONDON (AP) — World leaders pledged $1.1 trillion in loans and guarantees to struggling countries and agreed Thursday to crack down on tax havens and hedge funds ...
From the Daily Torygraph site's Pictures of the Day:


A Google Sketchup diagram shows what $100 million dollars would look like, stacked onto one pallet...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01378/trillion-one_1378164i.jpg

But of course, a trillion is ten thousand times that...




...and what one trillion dollars, stacked on 10,000 pallets would look like

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01378/trillion-two_1378165i.jpg

[Matty]

woah. thats a lot of money to owe someone.

so is the US and Euro trillion different too, like the billion? Must be i guess.

[Pendaric]

And I only want one of those pallets. I'm sure they wouldn't miss it...

[Oolon Colluphid]

Depends, Matty. Trillion. I think it's generally a million millions nowadays.

Since the world population is currently 6.77 billion (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html) (thousand million), my puter's calculator tells me that a trillion is $147 (about a hundred quid) for every human on the planet.

[Codec]

If Jesus was given a trillion dollars on his birthday (which well assume is 1AD for the sake of argument), he could spend a million dollars a day, every day, up to today and still not have spent it all.

[Oolon Colluphid]

If Jesus was given a trillion dollars on his birthday (which well assume is 1AD for the sake of argument), he could spend a million dollars a day, every day, up to today and still not have spent it all.
If I've put all those zeros into the calculator right, he'd still have over a quarter of it left.

[Codec]

If Jesus was given a trillion dollars on his birthday (which well assume is 1AD for the sake of argument), he could spend a million dollars a day, every day, up to today and still not have spent it all.
If I've put all those zeros into the calculator right, he'd still have over a quarter of it left.

Leading to you being able to calculate the exact date of his second coming, "for a few dollars more..." :D

[Pendaric]

And if he'd managed to invest the principle somewhere for a reasonable long term return, he'd probably have more now than when he started.

[Free Thinkr]

If you lent a penny at 5% compound interest in the time Jesus was fabled to have stalked the earth, you'd now be owed a solid gold sphere 150 million times the size of the earth.

[Oolon Colluphid]

If you lent a penny at 5% compound interest in the time Jesus was fabled to have stalked the earth, you'd now be owed a solid gold sphere 150 million times the size of the earth.
I'll be the first to return from a compound interest calculator to announce:

ETA: that the calculator I tried was shit. Actual answer shortly.

ETA2: $8,582,678,794,222,080,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000

Did it in Excel in the end. No wonder the online ones fell over.

[Codec]

If you lent a penny at 5% compound interest in the time Jesus was fabled to have stalked the earth, you'd now be owed a solid gold sphere 150 million times the size of the earth.
I'll be the first to return from a compound interest calculator to announce:

ETA: that the calculator I tried was shit. Actual answer shortly.

ETA2: $8,582,678,794,222,080,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000

Did it in Excel in the end. No wonder the online ones fell over.

... so showing that the owners of the restaurant at the end of the universe are ripping us off something chronic!

[Codec]

And if he'd managed to invest the principle somewhere for a reasonable long term return, he'd probably have more now than when he started.

So now your saying Jesus doesn't save??:dunno:

someone had to say what you're all thinking

[Free Thinkr]

If you lent a penny at 5% compound interest in the time Jesus was fabled to have stalked the earth, you'd now be owed a solid gold sphere 150 million times the size of the earth.
I'll be the first to return from a compound interest calculator to announce:

ETA: that the calculator I tried was shit. Actual answer shortly.

ETA2: $8,582,678,794,222,080,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000

Did it in Excel in the end. No wonder the online ones fell over.
Mm, the answer I got was I believe a 7 and forty zeros behind it. A number representative of half the Universe's atoms. Compound interest is a wondrous thing.

[Berthold]

Compound interest is a wondrous thing.
Like cholera bacteria :evil:

Remembering one of the books I had as a boy, suggesting them for a calculation example. Under optimal conditions, they double every 20 minutes.

[Free Thinkr]

Compound interest is a wondrous thing.
Like cholera bacteria :evil:

Remembering one of the books I had as a boy, suggesting them for a calculation example. Under optimal conditions, they double every 20 minutes.
So do "financiers."

[BWE]

Depends, Matty. Trillion. I think it's generally a million millions nowadays.

Since the world population is currently 6.77 billion (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html) (thousand million), my puter's calculator tells me that a trillion is $147 (about a hundred quid) for every human on the planet.

what the hell is a quid. I never figured out the money over there. Just hoped for the right change. :)

[Pendaric]

A quid is slang for a pound.