The MegaPenny Project
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp
Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
... or how much could the crowds at the shopping malls be spending this week-end? :-)
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I dunno, but I have a box of them, only about a foot and a half square, that I cannot possibly lift
Can I help you spend 'em? Or better yet, send them to Bush... he'll need every penny he can get to pay for his wars.
mine are all rolled in 50 cent rolls, by year up to 1981 when they stopped using copper.....figure they might be worth something some day.
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