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One
Thousand Pennies
1,000 [5 pennies wide x 5 pennies high x 40 pennies tall] A thousand pennies is only $10.00 worth of pennies, yet it weighs over six pounds. |
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value | $10.00, (Ten dollars and no cents) |
width | 3.75 inches |
height | 3.75 inches |
thickness | 2.5 inches |
weight | 100 ounces, (6.25 pounds) |
height stacked | 62.4 inches, (5.2 feet) |
area (laid flat) | 562.5 square inches (3.9 square feet) |
Hundred Thousand
Pennies
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One
Million Pennies
1,003,776 One million, three thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six Pennies [ A wall five by four by one feet thick with a 9-inch cube stepstool ] |
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value | $10,037.76 (Ten thousand, thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents) |
width | Four feet |
height | Five feet |
thickness | 12 inches, (one foot) |
weight | 6273.6 pounds (3.14 tons) |
height stacked | 5,228 feet ( 0.99 Miles ) |
area (laid flat) | 3,921 square feet |
One
Billion Pennies
1,000,018,176 One billion, eighteen thousand, one hundred and seventy-six Pennies [ Five school buses. ]
Each
of these blocks represents one 9x11x41 foot school bus - as seen
below. If you were to stack all these pennies in a single
pile, one atop the other, the stack would reach nearly
one thousand miles high. For comparison, note that the Space
Shuttle typically orbits only 225 miles above the Earth's
surface.
in some cases, a "milliard". |
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value | $10,000,181.76 (Ten million, one hundred eighty-one dollars and seventy-six cents) |
width | 45 feet |
height | 11 feet |
thickness | 41 feet |
total weight | 3,125 tons |
height stacked | 987 Miles |
area (laid flat) | 3,906,321 square feet (89.7 acres) |
One
Trillion Pennies
1,000,000,016,640 One trillion, sixteen thousand six hundred and forty Pennies [ One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273 feet ] The same football field, set beside our new cube for scale. |
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value | $10,000,000,166.40 (Ten billion, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents) |
width | 273 feet |
height | 273 feet |
thickness | 273 feet |
total weight | 3,125,000 tons |
height stacked | 986,426 Miles |
area (laid flat) | 89,675.2 acres |