[AFPhys]

I see I am not the only silly person who undertook to answer your question.

I computed the answer to 4 digits of accuracy, however, and triple checked. It is cute to think it would cover the world with dollar bills, but that even a trillion dollars won't do that.

The actual area able to be covered with 787 Billion one-dollar bills is about 2/3 the size of Connecticut. (8136 sq.km)

Put another way, the perimeter of the United States including all shoreline (bays and mouths of rivers, etc.) is 54,059 miles. We could cover every square inch of that to a width of 100yards with dollar bills.

There would still be a bit left over. I would be happy to share what is left evenly with everyone who posts on FR today. Assuming we have 10,000 posting today, we would each get $1,788,000.

[quantim]

What made me ponder the geograhy covered by $1 bills from Porkulus was that I just listened to Reagan's first SOTU speech in '81 again to see some parallels into today and it is shocking to say the least.

Not three minutes into it Reagan stated that the national debt was close to a staggering 1,000,000,000,000 dollars.  Then he went on to say if you had a stack $1000 bills in your hand only 4" high you'd be a millionaire.  To pay the national debt (in 1981) you would need a stack of $1000 bills 67 miles into space.

Maybe there should be some language in the global warming bill to make currency white on one side so we could take all these bills getting printed by the fed and simply lay them on the highways, our lawns etc. to reduce the global temperature.  /s.

[Betis70]

>>The actual area able to be covered with 787 Billion one-dollar bills is about 2/3 the size of Connecticut. (8136 sq.km)

I’ll take all the bills outside Fairfield County. :D