If you made a one mile stack of $1 dollar bills, how much would it be worth?

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If you made a one mile stack of $1 dollar bills, how much would it be worth?

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Last updated Jun 12 2021.

Kn0thead
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Kn0thead

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For those of you out there who jest gotta have the exact numbers:
All U.S. currency is 0.0043' in thickness (regardless of denomination) That
makes 232.56 bills per inch; 1790.7 bills per foot, and 14,734,883 bills per
mile!! So if I was given the choice, I'd ask for $100's !!

U.S. currency, regardless of denomination, is 2.61 inches (66.3 mm) wide, 6.14 inches (156 mm) long, and 0.0043 inches (0.109 mm) thick. A single bill weighs about fifteen and a half grains (one gram)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_dollar

Response last updated by gtho4 on Jun 12 2021.
Apr 18 2002, 5:10 PM

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Gnomon
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I don't know exactly how thick a dollar bill is, but a ream of 500 sheets of photocopying paper is about 2 inches thick. On this basis, the stack of dollar bills would be worth about 15 million dollars.

Apr 18 2002, 7:48 AM