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To: MrB
A trillion dollars in dimes would actually probably rival the mass of the earth.

Just guessing here, but I suspect you're off a mite...

A dime weighs 2.268 grams (Ref: usmint.gov), a dollars worth is 2.268 x 101

A trillion dollars is $1 x 1012

A trillion dollars in dimes would weigh $1 x 1012 x 2.268 x 101 or 2.268 x 1013 grams

That would be 2.268 x 1013 / 103 grams per kilograms or 2,268 x 1010 kilograms

The mass of the earth is 5.97219 x 1024 kilograms (Ref: Terrestrial Planets by Nicholas Hughes)

To find out how far we are off lets start by equating the mass of a trillion dollars in dimes with that of the earth
2,268 x 1010 = 5.97219 x 1024

Clearly not equal, lets add a factor R to the left side of the equation and divide thru by the mass of trillion dollars in dimes. Where R is the number of trillions needed to equal the mass of the earth.

R = 5.97219 x 1024 / 2,268 x 1010 or

R = 2.633 x 1014 which is 263.3 trillion trillion dollars in dimes to equal the mass of the earth.

$263,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00
In dimes please.

That amount of money is beyond even the anointed ones imagining. To arrive at that much "stash", the entire planet, core, oceans, and all would, of needs be 90% silver (if we were still minting real money)

Regards,
GtG

PS I haven't had this much fun since "slide rule" class!

37 posted on 02/13/2013 6:33:47 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Read downthread... we both corrected our statements.


38 posted on 02/14/2013 5:18:36 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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