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Do you know how big a million dollars is? How about a billion or a trillion? Here is an animated size comparison of a trillion dollars. That's 1.000.000.000.000$! How much money is that?
One trillion dollars. One and 12 zeroes. 1,000,000,000,000 $. That's a lot, but how much is it, or, even better said: how big is one trillion dollars?
Like me, you probably grew up with Hollywood movies that had suitcases or bags of money. The bad guys would get millions of dollars in ransom in suitcases full of money. That made me wonder: how big can one trillion dollars get if you stack it? You know, sort of like Walter White’s money in Breaking Bad.
Animating the trillion dollars
Well, I had Cinema 4D and free models online so I did the math. I started from Wikipedia’s entry on the US one dollar bill. I got the right size and with this, I could theoretically find how much space would one trillion dollars take. One bill is exactly 6.14 in by 2.61 in. That allows me to make precise calculations, except one thing: thickness. After a couple of articles, I saw that it wouldn’t make sense to take into consideration the individual thickness of each bill and I decided to take another path. I found these packs of fake prop money on Amazon and one of their stacks of 100 bills is 0.6 inches.
I was lazy so I chose to multiply the stacks by 2, 5 or 10. That's why they all have different shapes
Now I had an exact size for a bundle of 100 bills so I started calculating. Some of it was simple math, some even simpler, by using Cinema 4D's clone tool. As you can see some stacks are aligned vertically, some of them are aligned horizontally. I didn’t follow a pattern, instead, I just followed the easiest path, mostly just doubling the stacks I had or multiplying them by 10.
All of the stacks were placed in a line, with the amounts, sizes, and weights under them. I wanted people to get a real idea of the scale of this, so I placed some objects along the camera’s path. A banana, a smartphone, a person, a car, buildings and even planes and monuments. Of course, everything in scale, at least with 99% accuracy, for the LA Tower or the SS America ocean liner. The “Colosseum” isn’t really the Colosseum, but an amphitheater exactly the same size as the ancient and original Colosseum.
One trillion dollars final size?
In the end, I was really surprised. I had one trillion dollars. 1.000.000.000 virtual dollar bills stacked one on top of the other and it was really tall. And really big. The final stack was 62.4 by 165 meters wide and 150 meters tall. According to this online tool, a story (or storey if you're brit) is 3.3 meters so our stack of money is approximately 45 stories tall.
As you can see on the video I put some other things around the trillion dollars to see how big it is. A 737 Boeing airplane, the SS American ocean liner, a copy of the Colosseum, a car, an average apartment building, a mansion and the LA Bank Tower.
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