# Miscellaneous trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019 "2013-11-28T18:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/1 "2013-11-28T18:31:03Z")
Not sure what prompted this, but I wanted to know what a trillion US dollars looked like so I got the measurement for US notes and decided to use the highest current denomination, the $100. If I did the math properly (doubtful, but I show most of my work), here’s what I got. 100 x $100 = bundle of hundreds =10,000 [All American bills of any denomination are printed on paper that is about 0.0043 inches thick, so a new bundle (Federal Reserve strap) of 100 bills will be 0.43 inch thick (1 cm)](http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-hundred-dollar-bills-are-in-a-bundle) [US currency bills are are 2.61 inches (6.4cm) wide and 6.14 (15.6cm)inches long; they are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.](http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/money/bills/one/) b = bundles, k = thousands, etc. 10b = 100k 100b= 1M 100kb=1B 100mb=1T Area of a football field = 300 x 160ft = 3600 x 1920 inches 735b x 586b = 430710b arranged longways up and down the field or 312b x 1379b = 430248 arranged longways across the field 1T dollars is a football field layered in about 232 bundles of 100 dollar bills. using the 430710 number At .43 inches thick each, 232 bundles would be nearly 100 inches (99.84 inches) or over 8ft tall (8.32 ft) Also 232cm or 2.32m At 100gm per bundle, the weight would be 43,071kg or 19,536 pounds or 8.9 tons. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/2 "2013-11-28T18:57:06Z")
If you don’t have room in your house for your trillion dollars of hundreds, I can trade u for a Trillion Dollar Bill. 😉 [http://static.texashuntfish.com/pics/2009/06/10/large/1ae2610a-155a-4c92-bd2f-37de5d84d2ba.jpg](http://static.texashuntfish.com/pics/2009/06/10/large/1ae2610a-155a-4c92-bd2f-37de5d84d2ba.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![fireman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fireman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fireman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/3 "2013-11-29T01:03:26Z")
One Trillion Dollars [http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html](http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/4 "2013-11-29T01:11:40Z")
Cool!!! So cool. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/5 "2013-11-29T01:41:26Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > At 100gm per bundle, the weight would be 43,071kg or 19,536 pounds or 8.9 tons. This last bit looks a bit off… wouldn’t 1 trillion 1 gram bills weigh 1 trillion grams, or 100 million kilos? ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/6 "2013-11-29T01:52:23Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > This last bit looks a bit off… wouldn’t 1 trillion 1 gram bills weigh 1 trillion grams, or 100 million kilos? $10,000 in hundreds weighs 100 grams IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/7 "2013-11-29T02:16:35Z")
Oh. Right. $100 bills, not $1. So, if $10k weighs 100 grams, $100k weighs a kilo, $1 million weighs 10 kilos, $1 billion weighs 10k kilos, and $1 trillion weighs 10 million kilos. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/8 "2013-11-29T02:33:14Z")
You’re right. I forgot to multiply by the 232 layers. My weight was only for one layer. For all 232 layers I got 9,985,512 kg. = 4,529,357 pounds = 2,059 tons Thanks. Sorry about that. 🙂 edit: I assume the difference is rounding error since your number should technically be on the money, so to say. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/9 "2013-11-29T03:43:34Z")
More trivia - using a[plastic bag to get a cork out of a bottle](http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/car_mechanic_birthing_invention/). Except a guy in Argentina has taken the idea to the next level and wants to use something similar as a birthing device. The article does not seem to go into much detail but i guess you can use your imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/10 "2013-11-29T04:13:49Z")
Oh, thanks, **deltasigma**! I heard an interview with that guy on NPR, and didn’t really understand how the plastic bag trick worked. Then I forgot to look it up. 🙂 He said it had been used for childbirth a handful of times, and he was present for most of them. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/11 "2013-11-29T10:25:17Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Oh, thanks, **deltasigma**! I heard an interview with that guy on NPR, and didn’t really understand how the plastic bag trick worked. Then I forgot to look it up. 🙂 > > He said it had been used for childbirth a handful of times, and he was present for most of them. I really would not want to try and thread a plastic bag like object into a woman in hard labor … actually I can’t even figure out how to try and ask someone if we can shove this thing in and hopefully pull the kid out without damaging it. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/12 "2013-11-29T12:07:26Z")
Somewhat relevant: [http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million\_dollars.html](http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million_dollars.html) [link to humour site cockeyed dot com / how much is inside article - safe for work] ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscellaneous-trivia/675019/13 "2013-11-29T13:02:51Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Oh, thanks, **deltasigma**! I heard an interview with that guy on NPR, and didn’t really understand how the plastic bag trick worked. Then I forgot to look it up. 🙂 > > He said it had been used for childbirth a handful of times, and he was present for most of them. Sure. I wasn’t sure if that would be considered in bad taste or not. 🙂