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[apocalypsos]

Do you know how long it took me to find out how much one million dollars weighs? Internet, you're disappointing me of late. *is annoyed*

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[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Find out how much one silver dollar weighs, then math it.

That should be fairly easy. ^_^

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I was going for the weight of a million in paper money, which ... well, involves math. And see below for my rule when it comes to math. :)

[whispersinink.livejournal.com]

Are you on the right internet?

;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

No, I think I was just being stupid about how I was searching. But still, bad Internet, making it that hard to find out.

Of course, I probably could have just done the math like this guy did, but math and I are not friends. We are, in fact, lifelong mortal enemies sworn to battle to the death against extraordinary odds.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a Terry Pratchett book?

[akacat]

I don't know how long it took you, but it took me one google and ~12 clicks to find out that a dollar bill weighs 1 gram. According to my Conversion program, 1,000,000 grams = 2204.622622 lbs or 2204lb 9.96oz.

[ceejayoz.livejournal.com]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weight+one+million+dollars&btnG=Google+Search

#6 is http://www.sixsixfive.com/448.html, which has One piece of United States paper money weighs about (1) one gram; one million dollars (in hundred dollar bills) all together, not including any of the paper bindings that usually holds money together, would weigh approximately 10,000 grams, or 22.05 pounds, rounding up.

You suck at teh Google. ;-)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know. I is teh suck. :)

[pretteangel.livejournal.com]

Well... This isn't how much it would weigh, but this does feature of tall a million dollars would be:

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html

Hi, by the way. I've been lurking long enough, I think. :)

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Nice link! Because really volume is more important than weight.

The proportions of the various denominations would probably be important too, if you were talking about something like a bank vault. If you were talking about a casino vault, then there'd probably be a higher proportion of denominations of greater value. Obviously, if it was someone walking into a bank and declaring, "I would like to withdraw...one million dollars." then you wouldn't need to take it into account.

The U.S. Treasury also only prints $100 bills.

Wasn't able to find the proportions of U.S. denominations in circulation, but by using the table on this page for Australian denominations and some quick calculations, I worked out the following.

$10 = 10%
$20 = 16.5%
$50 = 39%
$100 = 18%

So assuming it's similar for the U.S. and that you wouldn't bother with loose change, you'd be better off taking the $50 value as an average and doubling the amount of money you'd have to lug around based on the $100 calculations.