Picturing One Trillion Dollars

March 9, 2009 by  
Filed under Features & Editorials

PinExt Picturing One Trillion Dollars

Will all the talk of economic bail-outs to the turn of trillions of dollars just how much money is that visually?

A brilliant post from Zee Slash Blog breaks it down for us using a packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2″ thick and contains $10,000.


packet Picturing One Trillion Dollars

A decent wedge

So firstly, one million dollars ($1,000,000):


pile Picturing One Trillion Dollars

Looks So Trivial...

Next, one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000)

 

pallet x 10 Picturing One Trillion Dollars

More like it...

Finally, one trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) – note each pallet is double packed!

 

pallet x 10000 Picturing One Trillion Dollars

Even Bill Gates can only dream of this much money...

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