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The 2 hundred million ton penny drops

March 3, 2009 - 12:12 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Jamie Irons
2009-03-03 15:44:58

I’m probably in error, but I get a one hundred million ton penny:

2.5 g/ penny X 10^12 dollars X 10^2 pennies/ dollar == 2.5 X 10^14 g.

2.5 X 10^14 gm X 1 oz/ 2.8 X 10 g X 1 lb/ 1.6 X 10 oz X 1 ton/ 2 X10^3 lb == 1.4 X 10^8 ton

But like I said, I probably made some mistake.

Jamie Irons