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[codetrotter]

Yeah. I still find it hard to visualize though.

A 1 meter x 1 meter x 1 meter container full of water would weigh about 1 metric ton. That’s how I usually think of 1 metric ton.

If I saw a 1 meter x 1 meter x 1 meter neatly densely packed bunch of money bills on top of a euro pallet. I would have no idea if I was looking at the equivalent of some hundreds of thousands of dollars, or billions or what.

[mcoliver → codetrotter]

I went through this exercise a while back randomly sitting on my couch wondering how much it would cost to fill my house with $100 bills.

For your purposes, assuming $100 USD bills, 1m cubed is roughly 71 million USD.

A 2000 sqft house with 8 foot ceilings, 42 billion.