How long would it take to count 1,250,000,000,000 dollars?

[louis c]

one trillion, 250 billion dollars.

assuming it took one second to count a single one dollar bill, and assuming you did not stop to eat, drink, sleep, or conduct other bodily functions.

If, on those conditions, by my primitive calculations, in order to reach that number today, you would have had to start counting on the day Jesus Christ was born.

please double check my work to see if I'm correct.

[npk]

1. I hate math. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Don't be hatin' on math. Math don't hate. n/t

[npk]

8. LOL

I have to hate on math. It kicked my ass in school. Especially trigonometry crap.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Trig! (?) ain't no thing.

Just triangles. Be happy you never had to figure out the tables for yourself!

[aquart]

2. Honey, it's not how long it takes, it's who you trust to do the counting.

Ask the mob how they deal with large quantities of cash. It's a problem.

Hint: they employ oversight.

[louis c]

6. Honey, Like being called honey.

I'm a 56 year old male, so I take that as a complement.

[htuttle]

3. Count it? Hell, you probably couldn't even spend it in that time!

Unless I'm calculating things wrong, as of Jan 1, 2008 there had been roughly 732,920 days since Jan 1 in the year zero (2008 x 365).

Doing a little math, if you spent 1.5 million dollars every single day since the year zero, you still wouldn't have spent $1,250,000,000,000. (732,920 days x $1,500,000 = $1,099,380,000,000).

[louis c]

5. Amazing, isn't it. (NT)

[htuttle]

11. If it were all in single dollar bills...

...I don't even know if you could burn it in a bonfire quickly enough to get rid of $1.25 trillion in 2008 years.

Er,...maybe Paulson could, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't.

[TahitiNut]

7. Lots longer than that. Over 39,610 years. That's almost 20 times longer.

:shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

10. You used 365.25 and I used 365, n/t

[JVS]

13. Slacker, taking leap-day off!

[TahitiNut]

16. Yup. I probably should have used 365.24, though.

:shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

18. Either way, we're talking the very beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period...

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of "high" culture (behavioral modernity) and before the advent of agriculture. The terms "Late Stone Age" and "Upper Paleolithic" refer to the same periods. For historical reasons "Late Stone Age" usually refers to the period in Africa, whereas "Upper Paleolithic" is generally used when referring to the period in Europe. In 19th century archaeology, the Upper Paleolithic was also known as the "Reindeer Age".

....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic

The "Reindeer Age", or, for Palin, more than 5 times older than the Universe...

[htuttle]

20. In other words, they'd have to start counting before 'counting' was invented

[TahitiNut]

23. ... and those pictures of George Washington would've been VERY confusing.

:silly:

They'd SURELY think it was Barbara Bush.

[Junkdrawer]

9. I get 39637 years...n/t

[louis c]

12. If I'm off by that much that makes it 20 times worse.

[JVS]

14. Now imagine it's all in pennies!

[npk]

17. Now my head just spun all the way around. n/t

[pokerfan]

15. 1 year = 31,556,926 seconds

1.25e12/31556926 = 39,610.96558 years

[ColbertWatcher]

19. 39,610 years! Unpossible, the Earth is only 6,000 years old! n/t

[louis c]

22. I got the one year right

Then I didn't multiply the millenniums correctly, I guess.

Political science and journalism was my deal in college.