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askthecalifornian - > Ask The Californian -> How long would the stimulus package reach if measured in dollar bills?
How long would the stimulus package reach if measured in dollar bills?

Q: If the present stimulus package of $819 billion were broken down into one dollar bills (or fives, or tens), how far in distance would it reach?
— Don Siglin

A: A dollar bill is 6.14 inches long. 819 billion of these would be 5,028,660,000,000 inches long. There are 63,360 inches in a mile. So that many dollar bills laid side by side would stretch for 79366477.3 miles long or wrap around Earth about 3187 times.
When I was a substitute teacher I used to read from a book of fascinating facts. One of those facts was that Americans ate enough hot dogs every year to form a chain stretching from the earth to the moon and back again.
— Andrew Mockett
 

Posted in these Groups: Business & Finance, News
Topics: stimulus package, dollar bills, inches, miles, hot dogs, substitute teacher
posted by askthecalifornian on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 11:48 AM
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posted by nooneisabovethelaw on Feb 5, 2009 at 03:20 PM

Except your math is off by a factor of 100. The stimulus package is $819 billion, not 8.19 billion. You're both in error.

posted by askthecalifornian on Feb 5, 2009 at 03:40 PM

thanks for the catch noone. it's been fixed now.

 

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