A Million US$1 Bill

Did You Know: If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 109.22m (358.33 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton?

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1 USD is said to be .0043 inches thick and weights exactly 1 gram. Using simple arithmetic, we can obtain the height of a stacked 1,000,000 $1 by using this equation: 0043 inches x 1,000,000, which is equivalent to 4300 inches. We could then convert it into meters by multiplying it with 0.0254, that is since 1 inch is equivalent to 0.0254 m. 4300 x 0.0254 = 109.22m or 358.33 ft. To obtain the weight, we simply multiply 1 gram with 1,000,000, getting us 1,000,000 grams. We then convert 1,000,000 grams into metric ton by multiplying it with 0.000 001, that is since 1 gram is equivalent to 0.000 001 ton. 1,000,000 x 0.000 001 gets us 1 ton.

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<b>Did You Know:</b> If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 109.22m (358.33 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton? <a href="http://did-you-know-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/million-us1-bill.html" target="_blank">Read More</a>