How much is $450 billion?
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.