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David K. Israel
One Quadrillion Pennies
by David K. Israel - January 21, 2008 - 9:05 AM

By now I’m sure most of you have heard about the woman suing the government for 3 quadrillion dollars over the Katrina tragedy.

I was having a hard time even visualizing 1 quadrillion dollars, so I went looking for it online. Alan Taylor over at KOKOGIAK has put together the most wonderful penny visualizer, starting with a single cent and working his way up to 1 quintillion. You MUST go to the site and check out the whole visual journey, but I leave you here with a taste of 1 quadrillion pennies. (That little green thing on the right is a football field, in case you’re wondering.)

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Comments (6)

  1. So a few hundred million or even a billion just wasn’t enough?

    posted by Sandy C on 1-21-2008 at 9:20 am

  2. I would give them to her – if everyone turned in their pennies that they dont use, there would be more than plently. I just want to see what she is going to do with them all.

    posted by Sarah on 1-21-2008 at 4:05 pm

  3. Hadn’t heard about the lawsuit (good luck on that) but I had seen The MegaPenny Project a while back; I wrote a piece on the names of large numbers, and that’s one of the sites I sighted and cited in my post. ;o)
    http://www.davintosh.com/2006/07/31/really-big-numbers/

    posted by Dave on 1-21-2008 at 4:39 pm

  4. That’s a lot of bubblegum

    posted by DW on 1-21-2008 at 4:45 pm

  5. That was a fun web site. I had fun trying to read off the numbers from the “Big Numbers” chart to my husband, although it did make me feel semi illiterate!

    posted by Maggie on 1-21-2008 at 10:44 pm

  6. Ohhh… you have to go to the bonues MegaMoo project… Priceless.

    (And on a side note, what kind of idiot files a claim for 3 quadrillion dollars? It´s senseless claims like these that almost make you want to throw out the whole lot.)

    posted by GTT on 1-22-2008 at 2:35 pm

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