The other day I was sitting, listening to the news on the radio or television, hearing all about the bailout/economic stimulus package and how it was approved by the Senate and blahblahblah….the rest just kind of drowned out into oblivion except for the number a trillion dollars.  I’m not sure why I heard that number or why it stuck in my head, the “economic stimulus bill” is for $838 billion…not too shy of the magical one trillion dollars.

What Is A Trillion Dollars?

I know one trillion is a big number, but the real reason it caught my attention was because I was reading about numbers the other day and the article I saw was trying to put one trillion dollars in perspective.

So, what is a trillion dollars?

  1. A Trillion Dollars = $1,000,000,000,000.
  2. A Trillion Dollars is a one with 12 zeros to the left of the decimal point.
  3. A Trillion Dollars is a million million dollars.
  4. If you laid one dollar bills end to end, you could make a chain that stretches from Earth to the moon and back again 200 times before you ran out of dollar bills.
  5. One trillion would be enough to buy about a thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies for every person in the US.
  6. A trillion barrels of oil would – at current consumption levels – fuel the world for about 33 years

source: npr.org

…and the article I was reading:

Let’s say you came up with a great business idea about the time Jesus of Nazareth was born. And let’s say that business made one million dollars every day, day-in and day-out, 365 days a year from that point forward.

You wouldn’t earn a trillion dollars until October of 2737. – source: Teaching Sells.

So when you hear about bail outs, economic stimulus packages, and other government spendings remember What Is A Trillion Dollars?

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