One Billion Pennies
1,000,018,176
One billion, eighteen thousand, one hundred and seventy-six Pennies
[ Five school buses. ]
Each of these blocks represents one 9x11x41 foot school bus - as seen below. If you were
to stack all these pennies in a single pile, one atop the other, the stack would reach nearly one
thousand miles high. For comparison, note that the Space Shuttle typically orbits only 225 miles
above the Earth's surface.
Only in North America and the general scientific community is this number (1,000,000,000) called
a "billion". Most European countries call this number either "one thousand million" or,
in some cases, a "milliard". Enough international confusion, let's move on to ten billion.
| | value |
$10,000,181.76
(Ten million, one hundred eighty-one
dollars and seventy-six cents) |
| width |
45 feet |
| height |
11 feet |
| thickness |
41 feet |
| total weight |
3,125 tons |
| height stacked |
987 Miles |
| area (laid flat) |
3,906,321 square feet (89.7 acres) |
Next, Ten Billion Cents >>
home, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
|