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To: Delta Dawn
How much money? My spouse and I were wondering the same. I decided to put the math to it. First the assumptions. Skyler said they are mixed bills. So assumption No. 1 is first that these are an arbitrary mix of 40% $20's, 20% $50's, and 40% $100's.

Now the dimensions Each bill is 2.61" (.2175 ft) width X 6.14" (.511 ft)length X .0043" (.00035 ft.) thickness. That means each bill consumes .00000398 cuft.

Now the stack. I noticed that they are using 4 pallets as a square. Since each pallet is 4' X 4', and about 4' tall, this estimates the stack of cash to be about 256 cubic feet.

Divide 256 cubic feet by .00000398 cubic feet per bill means that there are 64,321,608 individual bills.

Now using the 40/20/40 assumption........ 25,728,643 $20 bills equals $514,572,860. 12,864,321 $50 bills equals $643,216,080. 25,728,643 $100 bills $2,572,964,300. Grand total...... $3,730,753,240. Saul better get busy trying to laundry 3.7 billion dollars.

Now some adjustments though..... Air space between bills is obviously going to make this number smaller, but I'd guess Heisenbergs got easily 1 or 2 billion in that stack if the denomination ratios are close.

72 posted on 08/27/2013 1:13:10 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: catfish1957

For futher consideration. I realized that the weight of the higher bills in stack are going to compress the lower ones. I think $2-3 billion is more likely.


84 posted on 08/27/2013 1:45:53 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: catfish1957

How much was in the pile was discussed here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-walter-white-made-on-breaking-bad-2013-8

$80 million


109 posted on 08/27/2013 4:55:10 PM PDT by BootsOfEscaping
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