To give you an idea, here is a lesson I had my math students undertake: they were given one billion dollars to spend, and I told them the daily limit was $10,000. They could spend it on anything they wanted as long as they came up with the exact price of each item, and then list it.
A few of the really bright students quickly figured out that at a rate of ten grand per day, it would take them close to 300 years to spend it all. 300 years. We haven't even been a country for 300 years. Now, a quadrillion? Do the math. At 10 grand per day, it would take one hundred billion years. Now multiply that by two. Two hundred billion years. Whether or not you believe the Big Bang occurred, the Universe is about 14.5 billion years old.
It has been estimated that on the Earth alone, the total monetary wealth, taking gold and silver into consideration, is worth 34 quadrillion dollars. If that were to be distributed to each person on this planet, with an estimated population of 8 billion, that would mean that each individual would receive $4,250,000.
To give you an idea, here is a lesson I had my math students undertake: they were given one billion dollars to spend, and I told them the daily limit was $10,000. They could spend it on anything they wanted as long as they came up with the exact price of each item, and then list it.
A few of the really bright students quickly figured out that at a rate of ten grand per day, it would take them close to 300 years to spend it all. 300 years. We haven't even been a country for 300 years. Now, a quadrillion? Do the math. At 10 grand per day, it would take one hundred billion years. Now multiply that by two. Two hundred billion years. Whether or not you believe the Big Bang occurred, the Universe is about 14.5 billion years old.
It has been estimated that on the Earth alone, the total monetary wealth, taking gold and silver into consideration, is worth 34 quadrillion dollars. If that were to be distributed to each person on this planet, with an estimated population of 8 billion, that would mean that each individual would receive $4,250,000.
Just a few fun math facts on a Monday morning.