How much is $450 billion? 1

Posted by Joel Jensen Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:33:00 GMT

I was wondering today, if we took all the money spent in Iraq, as dollar bills, would it blanket the entire country?

Dollar bill = 6.6294cm * 15.5956 = 103.3894 square cm per dollar bill

square cm per square meter = 10,000

square m per square km = 1,000,000

cm per km = 10,000,000,000

dollar bills per km = 96,721,714

cost of Iraq war so far $450,000,000,000

km of paper coverage = 4,653 square kilometers ( the state of Deleware is 5,133 square km )

area of Iraq = 437,072 SQ KM

We have a way to go, we’ve only gotten a little over 1% coverage so far.

If it were pennies:

$1 = 156.3175 cm of pennies,arranged in a hexagonal fasion 6 pennies touching every penny

7,035 square km. Probabally enough to pave all the roads in copper.

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  1. Oyun over 2 years later:

    thanks a lot.. it’s very good article.

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