Can You Count to a Trillion?
So how much is one trillion anyway? The creative folks at govbudget.com provide some perspective:
- 1 trillion seconds = 31,546 years;
- 1 trillion dollar bills placed end to end would reach 96.9 million miles, far enough to reach the Sun;
- the average new car costs $28,400 in the US. $1 trillion would buy more than 35 million cars;
- the entire Federal budget is $2.8 trillion. A stack of that many dollar bills would circle the Earth more than 7 times;
- gross Federal debt is more than $8.7 trillion, which would make a stack of US dollar bills that would reach from the Earth to the Moon and back with some to spare;
- $8.7 trillion in one-dollar bills would cover an area larger than each US state except for Alaska and Texas.
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