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We hear and read a lot about a Billion Dollars.
$1,000,000,000
A lot of dollars for sure.

Question
Take a guess how far One Billion dollar bills would go, if you laid them end to end on the ground ?
Guess how many ... feet, meters, or miles ??
ANSWER

One Billion dollar bills
laid end to end would
stretch 3.8 Times around
the Earth at the Equator.
One Dollar bill = 6 inches.  (2 per foot)
One mile = 5280 feet.
One mile = 10560 dollars laid end to end
Earth at equator is 24,900 miles circumference
1,000,000,000,000 dollars divided by 10,560 ( dollars per mile ) = 94,696 miles of dollar bills laid end to end.
94,696 miles of dollar bills equals 3.8 times around the earth