What does one
TRILLION pounds look like?
look
down the page you wont believe it
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Well
here is the largest English note £50
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one packet of one hundred £50 bills is
less than 1/2" thick and contains £5,000..
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Here is Zoë
beside believe it or not, half million pounds (100 packets of £5,000). |
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Here is Zoë beside one million
quid you can stuff it in a carrier bag easy
 And the average bonus for high flying bankers
One million seconds comes out to be about 11½
days.
A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10
hours and 40 minutes ago.
A million hours ago was in 1885.
U.S. Treasury. deficit is
a million dollars every five (5) seconds
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| Here is Zoë with £50 million on a one meter pallet
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Here is Zoë beside five hundred million which
is
half a BILLION pounds
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Here is Zoë
with One BILLION pounds
A billion seconds is 32 years.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of
Christ.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on
earth.
A billion dollars deficit everyday at the U.S. Treasury.
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How about this then Here is Zoë beside half a trillion pounds
what a difference
can you see Zoë !!! ..
50 meters wide double stacked |
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Don’t forget they are £50 notes |
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So here we are then Here is Zoë
{she's had to
move to the other side }
beside ONE TRILLION pounds. in fifty pound notes
it fits the pitch at Wembley yes its 2 pallets
high] the United kingdom debt is two Wembley s like
this.
After a trillion, a quadrillion comes
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One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years –
Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.
if you laid out a Trillion one dollar bills or
Scottish pound notes end to end that will take you almost 4 million
miles past the sun
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It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12
zeros.
if you counted one per second for a trillion
seconds it will take you 32,000 years
The country has not existed for a trillion
seconds.
Western
civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
A trillion is written as 1,000,000,000,000
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A trillion
pounds is so large a number that only politicians
can use the
term in conversation.
even then the numbers can mean
hugely differing amounts [so make sure they say how many zeros
]
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As it was until 1974 |
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English |
| thousand |
thousand |
| million |
million |
| billion |
thousand
million |
| trillion |
billion |
| quintillion |
trillion |
| sextillion |
thousand
trillion |
| septillion |
quadrillion |
| octillion |
thousand
quadrillion |
however
In
1974, the government of the UK switched to the short
scale, a change that is reflected in its mass media and
official usage.
since then
the uk and the united states use the same [but you have to
watch them ]
so this is
based on the short scale
system
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For most
of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United
Kingdom uniformly used the
long scale, while the United States of
America used the short
scale,[
see diagram] so that the two systems were often referred to as
British and American |
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