How does a trillion dollars look

Here is where we may start running into problems. In some parts of the world, this may be referred to as a "thousand million" or "milliard" rather than a billion. Below is a table showing the different terminology. Which one you use may depend on where you live. More on this at Wikipedia if you're interested. Gizmodo made this handy illustration in using a computer modeling software.

Spoiler: it's big. How does a trillion dollars feel? You better ask Apple that question. While you're at it, ask what's next, a quadrillion? And that billion dollars would weigh 11 tons. So how does a billion equate to a trillion? Willwork creates engaging, energized, and exceptional event experiences. He can be contacted at Bob. McGlincy willwork.

Facebook Twitter Instagram Linkedin. Subscribe Print Magazine eNewblasts Menu. November 12, AM. Most people have a few in their pockets or in a jar on the bookshelf and it provides a much better sense of scale. Place them side by side in a line and they stretch out one foot. One million pennies creates a wall four feet wide, five feet tall and one foot thick.

This wall weighs nearly 6, pounds, or just over three tons! Stepping up to a billion, things start to change as we start imagining stacks of pennies the size of a typical school bus.

Five school buses to be exact. Add another three zeros and we begin to enter into the realm of the age of the universe in years and the national debt in dollars — not pennies.