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LudwigPastorius

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4. If you stacked a billion one dollar bills into a pile that was 48 X 40 feet,...

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:22 PM

1 hr ago

it would be 46 feet high.

If you stacked Elon Musk's wealth in one dollar bills into a pile that was 48 X 40 feet, it would be 23,100 high...or about the height of Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas.

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