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This is a link post A TRILLION dollars?
If, by chance, you a granted three wishes, don't wish for a trillion dollars.
 (I helped save b3ta! lion-cake Bad lion-cake, bad., Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:43, Reply)
This is a normal post I am sure I could fit a trillian dollars in the cupboard under the stairs
I am sure it's magic, I can always squeeeze 'one more bit'o junk' in it no matter how much is in there. I think it's secretly a tardis.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:48, Reply)
This is a normal post the kayak i used on my duke of edinburgh expedition was a tardis
i could fit tons of stuff in there, though it of course was a bugger to pack, and an even bigger bugger to carry
 (I helped save b3ta! weaver., Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes...
I have handbags like this
 (BlackCat, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Not sure.
His $100m looks like it should say $1bn - he seems to have multiplied the $1m by 10 along 3 axes rather than 2.

That means that he's out by 3 orders of magnitude, and leads me not to trust the rest...

Or am I being dumb?
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:51, Reply)
This is a normal post you're probably being dumb
you stupid thicko PhD you :)
 (I helped save b3ta! t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah - but...
... I'm also a humanities tart. You can't expect scientific rigour from me.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:59, Reply)
This is a normal post He should multiply along 3 axes as opposed to 2
if he's going up in volume.

Ok, so we can't expect scientific rigour, how about basic maths? ;)

edit: hang on, I bet they're using the american billion as opposed to our good old British billion...
 (I helped save b3ta! DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Yup - that's my point.
He seems to have 10x10 stacks; he should have 10x10x10 to get from one million to a billion (assuming that 1 billion is a thousand million).

EDIT - I mean the other way around. What he calls a hundred mill should be 10x10; he's given it as 10x10x10.

Yup. I'm thick.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:06, Reply)
This is a normal post the top layer isn't 10 times bigger both ways
It's an illusion. As are most 100 million dollar amounts it turns out :)
 (I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Based on his image of 'a packet'
The pallet is only 7 packets wide (assuming one wrap per packet). How this affects everything else, I'm not sure, but I don't see how he can have a tidy cube of 10000 packets if it's 7 packets across the bottom...
 (I helped save b3ta! TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah
Mr PHD, Doctor Thicky of Clan Mcthick.

I knew you when you just Thick....


Cheers

hates people who try to better themselves....
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:02, Reply)
This is a normal post No you didn't.
But you got the title right. stricto sensu, I'm not allowed to call myself "Dr" - a PhD doesn't entitle you to do that.

:(
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Thats Sherly the point!

(I helped save b3ta! Jorvic, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I make it about...
... four million feet of money. That lot stacked on you head would diminish your sature a bit!
 (I helped save b3ta! lion-cake Bad lion-cake, bad., Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:05, Reply)
This is a normal post ...
or about 800 miles!
 (I helped save b3ta! lion-cake Bad lion-cake, bad., Mon 16 Mar 2009, 15:17, Reply)
This is a normal post the million has 2 yellow lines so 2 columns the 100 mil has 7 columns
so it's multiplied by 3.5 which squared is about 10, then x 10 vertically = 100.

The viewing angle is different too.
 (I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:06, Reply)
This is a normal post lets see...
1 Million = 1,000,000 = 10^6
1 Billion = 1,000,000,000 = 10^9
1 Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12

so 1 Trillion = 1,000,000 Million = 10^6 * 10^6

100 Million = 100,000,000 = 10^8

Each side of the Trillion square has 100 (50*2) pallets. 100*100 = 10,000 = 10^4

10^4 * 10^8 = 10^12 = 1 Trillion

That' right
 (I helped save b3ta! Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:46, Reply)
This is a normal post There's something about this that makes me smile and feel all warm inside.
:)
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:51, Reply)
This is a normal post It's your subconscious
spotting someone who's the only one in the department today and is really bored
 (I helped save b3ta! Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post *joins club*
There's loads of people in today, but I have my own office. And I'm bored.

Same as every day...
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 15:02, Reply)
This is a normal post I always get confused....
Isn't it right that an American billion is different to a UK billion? Like our billion is a million millions but theirs is a thousand million? Or something? Or other?
 (Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 16:49, Reply)
This is a normal post officially the UK and the US have the same scale, where 1 billion is 1000 million
but the old UK scale (and most of non-english speaking western europe) uses milliard as 1000 million, with billion as a million million.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
 (I helped save b3ta! but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 16:57, Reply)