James,
$10B can be imagined as 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) bank rolls, each of $10,000
(100 bank notes of $100 each). Can your largest room in your house admit so
many bank rolls of bank notes? :-) Probably, yes. Your room can admit $10
BILLION USD. :-)
So that seems not so much money there... :-)
Or you can imagine it as 10,000 bank notes, $1M each (such exist, but not in
that quantity). It will be 100 bank rolls, 100 bank notes of $1M in each...
Or better imagine it as ONE bank note. :-)
WBR,
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "James M. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: [e-gold-list] World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad
debt
>
http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=hke/
headlines/010802/asia/afp/World_s_largest_bank_to_write-off_10_billion_dolla
rs_of_bad_debt.html
>
> Apologies for this awful-looking URL, but I thought it might interest
those
> here. A billion is a thousand-million, and I have trouble imagining
numbers
> that large. Ten billion dollars, according to the article, is something
like
> 1,200 billion yen. One of you can probably illustrate this in some way I
can
> grasp (level teaspoons-full of water in an Olympic size swimming pool?).
>
> Thanks if you can, a gram of e-gold goes to the best/funniest
illustration.
> JMR
>
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