On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:46:33PM -0400, James M. Ray wrote:
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>http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=hke/headlines/010802/asia/afp/World_s_largest_bank_to_write-off_10_billion_dollars_of_bad_debt.html
>
>
> Apologies for this awful-looking URL, but I thought it might interest those
> here. A billion is a thousand-million, and I have trouble imagining numbers
> 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?).
>
> Thanks if you can, a gram of e-gold goes to the best/funniest illustration.
If you bought 10 billion dollars worth of gold, melted it down and poured
it into an Olympic-sized swimming pool, the gold would be 12 centimeters
high.
Calculation:
Pool is 50x10 meters in area, or 5,000,000 square cm. The density of gold
is 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter. One centimeter of height would
contain 5,000,000*19.3 = 96,500,000 grams of gold.
10,000,000,000 dollars at 1 gram per 8.6 dollars
= 1,162,790,697.7 grams
1,162,790,697.7 grams / 96,500,000 grams per cm height
= 12.049644537 cm
If the price went up to 300 USD/oz you could "only" fill the pool 10cm
high with gold [similar calculation].
In addition you could fill up the pool and overflow the 1 meter mark by
3.6269430051 cm if you had 10 billion grams. Calculation: Olympic pools
would be 1 meter deep if they hold 500,000 Liters as another poster
claimed. 10,000,000,000 grams / 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter *
5,000,000 cubic centimeters per cm of height = 103.6269430051 centimeters
high of gold.
just my cubic millimeters' worth
http://two-cents-worth.com/?100573
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