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A lot of people outside of HN don't know what a trillion is.

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• wrycoder 2y ago
  Tell them it's comparable to $1 bills laid end to end from here to the sun. And tell them it's only 1/35 of the US national debt, which is roughly $350,000 per US taxpayer.
  • s1artibartfast 2y ago
    Easy fix, just use $100 bills and we are only 35% of the way to sun. Problem solved.
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  • dwaltrip 2y ago
    How many Olympic swimming pools is that?
    • withinboredom 2y ago
      It’s several football fields full of cash.
      • bregma 2y ago
        American football or the more globally popular kind?
        • withinboredom 2y ago
          Which do you think? :p
      • BurningFrog 2y ago
        Metric or Imperial "several"?