A mathematical question regarding national debt .
Discussion
Imagine the UK national debt as a pile of £1 coins and you had the job of counting them out , how long would it take if you could count one per second and you worked non stop 24 hours a day 7 days a week . Assume National Debt as being £1.2 Trillion . I did try working it out but the numbers appeared too large . Also , if you placed the coins on top of each other how high would the stack be .
Funk said:
I think I'm right in saying it would take you 38,051.8 years or 38 millennia and that if you placed 1.2tn £1 coins on top of each other it would reach a height of 3.78m kilometres.
Ah, but you'd be 20 some months in, counting, and Ed Balls would loom up and add loads more coins to your pile. So you'd have to live even longer!Edited by Funk on Tuesday 24th September 00:16
Funk said:
I think I'm right in saying it would take you 38,051.8 years or 38 millennia and that if you placed 1.2tn £1 coins on top of each other it would reach a height of 3.78m kilometres.
and it would weigh 11.4 billion metric tonsor about 1.5 tonnes of coins for every man, woman, and child in the world
BoRED S2upid said:
steveT350C said:
There are 604800 seconds in a week.
UK debt is increasing by about £2.3bn per week.
Is that all!UK debt is increasing by about £2.3bn per week.
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/debtclock/
This suggests just over 3bn per week if my maths correct. I am of course happy to be corrected!
Hugo a Gogo said:
Funk said:
I think I'm right in saying it would take you 38,051.8 years or 38 millennia and that if you placed 1.2tn £1 coins on top of each other it would reach a height of 3.78m kilometres.
and it would weigh 11.4 billion metric tonsor about 1.5 tonnes of coins for every man, woman, and child in the world
lots of mathematical questions regarding the UK economy answered here ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyQd6Xks7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyQd6Xks7A
link here http://www.labnol.org/internet/visualize-numbers-h... visualising a trillion in US 100 dollar bills
so for Sterling you'd have to double that really for 50 pound notes (which are bigger as well, but we'll ignore that
so twenty full metre cube pallets is a billion pounds, that's a good truck full
then you'd need a thousand of them for a trillion
so for Sterling you'd have to double that really for 50 pound notes (which are bigger as well, but we'll ignore that
so twenty full metre cube pallets is a billion pounds, that's a good truck full
then you'd need a thousand of them for a trillion
51mes said:
Would you gents disinfect those coins before putting them back into circulation please... ;-)
Nothing personal - I could just do without that thought when I go to buy a pint next.
OTOH if we did that with money perhaps people would be less likely to spend it ;-)
I can also get a roll of 28 £50 notes up my bum as well. Think about that while you hold a note in your mouth while fumbling for smaller change Nothing personal - I could just do without that thought when I go to buy a pint next.
OTOH if we did that with money perhaps people would be less likely to spend it ;-)
over_the_hill said:
That is a tad concerning!Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff