Archive for March 19, 2009

A Trillion, Visualized

Should a trillion dollars be enough? How about three or more, depending on how you look at the bailouts being thrown around?

Mint.com and WallStats.com have some stunning visual expressions of what a Trillion Dollars represents.

One trillion dollars; it’s a number that few people can
comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end would reach the sun or you spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years or one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778 Argentinosauruses (the largest known dinosaur).

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