How high is a stack of 1 trillion dollar bills? - Answers

The present US currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is .0043 inches. 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. (at least in the US, a British trillion is sometimes 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 one million times larger then the US trillion. That is why it is a good idea to use scientific notation: 1 US trillion = 1*1012. 1 British trillion = 1*1018. A hell of a difference). So, a stack of 1 trillion dollar bills would be: 1,000,000,000,000 x .0043 inches = 4,300,000,000 inches. 4,300,000,000 inches = 358,333,333.333333 feet 358,333,333.333333 feet = 67,866.1616 miles Say 68 thousand miles to be approximate The equator is about 24,900 miles in circumference. This means that at the equator the stacked bills (now lying on their edges) would circle the earth about 2.73 times. The bills side by side would cover almost 4000 square miles, an area larger than the state of Delaware