James, John F-L sirs: >.....(a trillion here is defined as the now commonly accepted 10^12). UKMA Blog is an interesting piece and promotes adoption of the Metric system: http://metricviews.org.uk/2009/03/trillion-bailout-metric-imperial/
Numerically, the trillion I read during SI learning was always in powers of 10^6 i.e. *million, Billion, trillion*. This has remained confused with US counting. During my disussions I pointed to DISPARITY in numeral counting between Asian, European & American countries and proposed to resolve in multiples of 10^5 and placed at: http://www.brijvij.com/IndoEuropean_UDN.doc as also in my Book "Towards A Unified Technology (1982)" as UDN Code. It shall only be in the right perspective to give a thought to make ammends .....in line with Internation Norms, if not my proposal, as at: http://www.brijvij.com/IndoEuropean_UDN.doc Regards, Brij Bhushan Vij Saturday, 20110924H17:63(decimalEST Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda The Astronomical Poem (revised number of days in any month) "30 days has July,September, April, June, November and December all the rest have 31 except February which has 29 except on years divisible evenly by 4; except when YEAR divisible by 128 and 3200 - as long as you remember that "October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE OUTSIDE of calendar-format" Jan:31; Feb:29; Mar:31; Apr:30; May:31; Jun:30 Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30 (365th day of Year is World Day) ******As per Kali V-GRhymeCalendaar***** "Koi bhi cheshtha vayarth nahin hoti, purshaarth karne mein hai" My Profile - http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_2col-vipBrief.pdf Author had NO interaction with The World Calendar Association except via Media & Organisations to who I contributed for A Possible World Calendar, since 1971. HOME PAGE: http://www.brijvij.com/ Contact via E-mail: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:51143] Re: A trillion dollars, give or take > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:32:39 +0100 > > I wrote an article for the UKMA blog on very similar lines in March 2009. > Perhaps many of you may be interested in reading it. It can be found at > http://metricviews.org.uk/2009/03/trillion-bailout-metric-imperial/ > > John F-L > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Frysinger" <[email protected]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 6:54 PM > Subject: [USMA:51139] Re: A trillion dollars, give or take > > > > Whoops! Make that 200 000 elephants weight in a trillion dollars and 3 000 > > 000 elephants (= population of Iowa) weight in national debt. My original > > animal equivalents would have worked in cats (~5 kg apiece). > > > > I told you, numbers this size are mind-numbing! > > > > Thanks, John. (I corrected "boggles" to "boggle" while I was at it.) > > > > Jim > > > > > > -- > > James R. Frysinger > > 632 Stony Point Mountain Road > > Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > > > > (C) 931.212.0267 > > (H) 931.657.3107 > > (F) 931.657.3108 > > > > On 2011-09-24 12:01, John M. Steele wrote: > >> You were doing great until you denominated it in non-metric units > >> (elephants). I get 1 000 000 t/5 t = 200 000 elephants. Thereafter, all > >> the elephants are in error; your numbers correspond to millielephants > >> (roughly, cats). > >> But in dollar bills, 1 trillion is 1 Tg which is tera-fying (forgive the > >> pun) > >> You might consider denominating it in $100 bills, the largest unit of > >> currency which is currently printed, as no one would actually carry a > >> large amount in singles. It is an incremental $47 100 in debt for every > >> man, woman, and child in addition to their own debts. > >> > >> --- On *Sat, 9/24/11, James Frysinger /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > >> > >> > >> From: James Frysinger <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [USMA:51137] A trillion dollars, give or take > >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 12:31 PM > >> > >> The numbers floating through the news these days boggle my mind, > >> even though I have a strong background in science and engineering. > >> Bruce Barrow remarked on something a few days ago that inspired my > >> calculations below. Please tell me if I have made any math errors. > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> ** How large is a trillion dollars? > >> > >> A dollar bill is 15.6 cm or 0.156 m long. So > >> 1 000 dollar bills end to end would be 156 m long, > >> 1 000 000 dollar bills (a million dollars) would be 156 km long, > >> 1 000 000 000 (a billion) would be 156 000 km long, and > >> 1 000 000 000 000 (a trillion) would be 156 000 000 km long. > >> > >> The average distance from the Earth to the Sun (called "1 > >> astronomical unit") is very close to 149 598 000 km, or to round it > >> off that would be > >> 150 000 000 km from Earth to Sun. > >> > >> So, a trillion dollar bills placed end to end would reach from the > >> Earth to the Sun and then extend another 4 % or so. > >> ** Could you carry a trillion dollars? > >> > >> A dollar bill (or a bill of any face value) weighs 1 g. So > >> 1 000 dollar bills would weigh 1 kg, > >> 1 000 000 dollar bills (a million) would weigh 1 metric ton (~2200 > >> lb), > >> 1 000 000 000 (a billion) would weigh 1 000 metric tons, and > >> 1 000 000 000 000 (a trillion) would weigh 1 000 000 metric tons. > >> > >> The average size of an elephant is 5 metric tons. > >> > >> So a trillion dollar bills would weigh about the same as 200 000 000 > >> elephants. The population of the U.S. is 310 000 000 people. So, > >> turn 2/3 of all Americans into elephants and their weight would be > >> that of a trillion dollar bills. > >> > >> ** How large is our national debt? > >> > >> The national debt is about 14.8 trillion dollars. > >> > >> That is equivalent to a line of dollar bills long enough to reach to > >> the sun 15 times. Or from Saturn to the Sun and halfway back. > >> > >> If that were represented by dollar bills, it would weigh about the > >> same amount as 3 billion elephants. The population of the world is 7 > >> billion people. So, turn nearly half the people in the world into > >> adult elephants and they would then weigh the same as our national > >> debt in the form of dollar bills. > >> > >> -- James R. Frysinger > >> 632 Stony Point Mountain Road > >> Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > >> > >> (C) 931.212.0267 > >> (H) 931.657.3107 > >> (F) 931.657.3108 > >> > > >
