Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 13, 2011
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Transcript:
Periclimenes Imperator- the Emperor shrimp, rides along the sea floor on the backs of slugs and sea cucumbers! Q: How much would it cost to completely fill a train boxcar with $100 bills? In January 2011, the wealthy residents of Aodi in Zhejiang, China, built a 23 foot high wall around their village for protection!
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THIS CALLS FOR MATH!
Hi Cube (High Cubic Volume) railroad box car:length: 60’ 9"Width: 9’ 6"interior height: 13’ 1"Interior volume: ~7580 cu. ft(info via: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Rails-Railroad-2468/2010/2/Box-Car-vs-Trailer.htm)
Volume of a US 100 Dollar bill “The size of a dollar bill is 6.6294 cm wide, by 15.5956 cm long, and0.010922 cm in thickness.”http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/DeneneWilliams.shtml
That’s 1.1292 cm^3
HAHA! Unit CONVERSION IS REQUIRED!1 (cm^3) = 3.53146667 × 10-5 ft^3
Therefor the US $100 bill is
(1.1292 cm^3) * 3.5314 × 10-5 ft^3 / 1 cm^3 = 3.9878 × 10-5 ft^3
And then the number of bills that could fit in the boxcar is…
7 550.71875 ft^3 / 3.9878 × 10-5ft^3 = 1.8935 × 10+8 bills
That’s 189345472 number of US $100 bills.
or
$18,934,547,200 dollars
~19 billion dollars
Thats my guesstimate.