A mathematical question regarding national debt .

[alftupper]

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]

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.

Edited by Funk on Tuesday 24th September 00:16

[AnonSpoilSport]

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.

Edited by Funk on Tuesday 24th September 00:16

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!

[Murph7355]

You wouldn't be counting quick enough to keep pace with the deficit. So you would never actually get to the end.

[steveT350C]

There are 604800 seconds in a week.

UK debt is increasing by about £2.3bn per week.

[Hugo a Gogo]

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 tons
or about 1.5 tonnes of coins for every man, woman, and child in the world

[BoRED S2upid]

steveT350C said:

There are 604800 seconds in a week.

UK debt is increasing by about £2.3bn per week.

Is that all!

[Hugo a Gogo]

or 4.5 billion tons of gold

which is 26 thousand times as much gold as there actually is in the world

[steveT350C]

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!

The 2.3bn I got from wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_nation...



http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/debtclock/

This suggests just over 3bn per week if my maths correct. I am of course happy to be corrected!

[AnonSpoilSport]

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 tons
or about 1.5 tonnes of coins for every man, woman, and child in the world

That's a big settee. Be a bit 'lumpy', that.

[Digga]

Murph7355 said:

You wouldn't be counting quick enough to keep pace with the deficit. So you would never actually get to the end.

^This.

You might as well see how many of the coins you can stuff into your foreskin.

[hedgefinder]

lots of mathematical questions regarding the UK economy answered here ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyQd6Xks7A

[Hugo a Gogo]

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

[Asterix]

Digga said:

Murph7355 said:

You wouldn't be counting quick enough to keep pace with the deficit. So you would never actually get to the end.

^This.

You might as well see how many of the coins you can stuff into your foreskin.

15 it seems...

[AnonSpoilSport]

Asterix said:

Digga said:

Murph7355 said:

You wouldn't be counting quick enough to keep pace with the deficit. So you would never actually get to the end.

^This.

You might as well see how many of the coins you can stuff into your foreskin.

15 it seems...

Damn, I only got 12...

[51mes]

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 ;-)

[over_the_hill]

another nice visual - scroll down

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/

[Asterix]

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

[AnonSpoilSport]

Asterix said:

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

Ah, this one I do win - 36 and counting...

[steveT350C]

over_the_hill said:

another nice visual - scroll down

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/

That is a tad concerning!