Never really stopped to think what it actually amounts to but with the state of the country and it being said we now have a 17 Trillion deficit it got me wondering and asking some other people and no one I asked knew.

1 Trillion = 1 million million
1 Trillion = 1 thousand billion

What 1 TRILLION Dollars Looks Like In Dollar Bills | DailyCognition.com (http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2009/03/25/what-1-trillion-dollars-looks-like-in-dollar-bills.html)

RR,

Nice visualization. As a scientist (biochemist) I always deal in big numbers, like a mole of something is 6.02x10e23 molecules (BTW that is a 600 billion trillion) but when it hits the wallet it really hits home. More correctly, it is likely to hit our children's and grand children's wallet than mine.

7.02 x 10 23rd.

Damn that Bush:fury:

7.02 x 10 23rd.


Avogadro's number, 6.022137 × 10 23rd

(or I wrote as 6.02 x 10e23)

And they call us I.T. Guys Geeks...

Avogadro's number, 6.022137 × 10 23rd

(or I wrote as 6.02 x 10e23)

At least we can agree on that. I have to look it up.
Thank you.
Why did they name it a mole, I'll never know

Why did they name it a mole, I'll never know

Mole (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_%28unit%29)

The mole (symbol: mol) is a unit of amount of substance: it is an SI base unit,[1] and one of the few units used to measure this physical quantity. The name "mole" was coined in German (as Mol) by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1893,[2] although the related concept of equivalent mass had been in use at least a century earlier. The name is assumed to be derived from the word Molekül (molecule). The first usage in English dates from 1897, in a work translated from German.[3][4] The names gram-atom and gram-molecule have also been used in the same sense as "mole",[1][5] but these names are now obsolete.

The mole is defined as the amount of substance of a system that contains as many "elementary entities" (e.g. atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 g of carbon-12 (12C).[1]. A mole has 6.0221415×1023[6] atoms or molecules of the pure substance being measured. A mole will possess mass exactly equal to the substance's molecular/atomic weight in grams. Because of this, one can measure the number of moles in a pure substance by weighing it and comparing the result to its molecular/atomic weight.

Damn that Bush:fury:

You finally got it right .:jump1::biglaugh: