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 by
nooneisabovethelaw
on Feb 5, 2009 at 03:20 PM
posted by
askthecalifornian
on Feb 5, 2009 at 03:40 PM