One Million Dollars From Different Perspectives

What does a million dollars look like when the bills are stacked one on top of another? All U.S. dollar bills, regardless of currency, are .043 inches thick. Therefore, a million one-dollar bills stack up to 4,300 inches, or 358 feet tall. This is about the same height as a 30- to 35-story building.


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Dividing this number by other dollar denominations gives you the height of their respective stacks. One million dollars is 71.6 feet tall in five-dollar bills, 35.8 feet in 10-dollar bills and 17.9 feet in 20-dollar bills. 50-dollar bills make for 7.16 feet, and 100-dollar bills reach 3.58.

A U.S. dollar bill measures 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long, and has an area of 16.0254 square inches. This means that one million dollars in one-dollar bills is enough to cover an area of 111,287.5 square feet or about the size of two football fields. Again, dividing this number by other dollar denominations will give you the area that the respective denominations will cover.

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