JMR wrote:
| that large. Ten billion dollars, according to the article, is something like
| 1,200 billion yen. One of you can probably illustrate this in some way I can
| grasp (level teaspoons-full of water in an Olympic size swimming pool?).
That's a lot of swimming pools worth of teaspoonfulls.
Let's say every dollar is equivalent to a teaspoon of water.
A teaspoon holds about 5 ml of water (1), so:
10 billion dollars is equivalent to
10 billion teaspoonfulls
or
50 billion milliliter
or
50.000 million ml
or
50 million liter
An Olympic size swimming pool holds about 500.000 liter, or about 130.000
gallons (1), so you need 100 Olympic size swimming pools to hold 10 billion
teaspoons of water...
--Luc
(1) Source: some page found via Google.
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