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Posted by c249709 5 days ago

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million(calvin.sh)
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DrNosferatu 4 days ago|
"The world’s most expensive piñata"
doublerabbit 5 days ago||
Now show me a cube made of gold worth $1M.
jjk166 4 days ago|
It's approximately a 3 inch cube.
gblargg 4 days ago||
To be precise, a 7.83 cm³ cube. More portable, though a bit heavy at 9.27 kg.
dvsfish 4 days ago||
Now this is the type I post I come for
sschueller 5 days ago||
1 Million Swiss Francs in the highest denomination (1000) weighs just 1.14 kg and is a stack of bills around 10 cm high. That is currently also around 1,261,037 USD

[1] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wert-nutzung-gewicht-6-fakten-z...

whatshisface 5 days ago||
Ron Paul is still alive and in some small way, just got his dream of auditing the fed turned into reality.
rafram 5 days ago||
Re Dot Counter, cool work, but charging me $3 to download an image with dots on it is just silly.
c249709 5 days ago||
still cheaper than https://countthings.com/
rafram 5 days ago||
That's 0.80€ per count and it's automatic. Still seems too expensive.
jaisio 5 days ago||
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mslansn 5 days ago||
Not surprised that the Fed overspent a project by 50%.
umanwizard 5 days ago||
I doubt this cost them 1.5M out of their real budget, lol. My guess is these are not legal tender in some way, e.g. worn-out bills that would otherwise be destroyed.
tracerbulletx 5 days ago||
The fact that this is not obvious to everyone is a bit disturbing to be honest..
musa11 5 days ago||
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mv4 5 days ago|
It's always amusing how people easily carry $1M cash in the movies.
nixpulvis 5 days ago||
Those are probably $100 bills. So you only need to fill a bag with 100 bundles. Easily fits in a duffle bag I'd assume.
Taek 5 days ago|||
In the movies, it's $100 bills, which are considerably more portable than $1 bills.
jolt42 5 days ago|||
Would you roughly say 100x more portable?
IAmBroom 5 days ago||
Using somat's estimate of 49" on a side, it would roughly weigh the same as 49^3/100 cu in of solid wood. Given a range of 0.01-0.03 lb/cu-in for pine, and choosing the midpoint: 23.5 lb.

Very portable.

(Yes, it's cotton not wood, but the weight of solid cotton is hard to find, and probably not much different.)

Cross-check: bills are apparently ~1g apiece. That predicts $1M in $100-bills is 20.8 lb. Very close.

mv4 4 days ago|||
sorry I missed that.
labster 5 days ago|||
Yeah, that many pennies would be really heavy.

Similarly, I always love it when small women smuggle suitcases full of gold in movies, when it would be heavy enough to break the handle off if it weren’t painted styrofoam.

kingkawn 5 days ago|||
Compress the cube by 100x and you could probably carry it
steezeburger 5 days ago|||
Those aren't stacks of one dollar bills though.
c249709 5 days ago|||
if it's in $100 bills you can fit it in a suit case easily with lots of space left
tbrake 5 days ago|||
well, using larger denominations helps.
sschueller 5 days ago||
I think you could tell if the bill was purple (Swiss franc [1]) instead of green in the movies...

[1] https://www.snb.ch/.imaging/flex/jcr:778b68b3-1344-4872-93d7...

ffin 5 days ago|||
the cube is full of $1 bills
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