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<p>[QUOTE="MatrixMP-9, post: 3733564, member: 93422"]HA!</p><p><br /></p><p>another weird way of visualizing. ... a 5 gallon water jug holds about 37,500 pennies. Sooooo, fill 26,670 of those (roughly) and thats about a billion. Put 35 marked coins at random spread out over those 26,670 jugs and thats the odds for a 1943 copper. Even if you had all 26,670 jugs in front of you with those 35 painted bright red, it would take a lifetime to go through them. I find it fascinating!</p><p><br /></p><p>put the filled jugs side by side and it would reach over 8 miles!</p><p><br /></p><p>84,480 pennies in a mile. 1 billion pennies laid out end to end is about 11,837 miles or just about a round trip from New York to Tokyo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MatrixMP-9, post: 3733564, member: 93422"]HA! another weird way of visualizing. ... a 5 gallon water jug holds about 37,500 pennies. Sooooo, fill 26,670 of those (roughly) and thats about a billion. Put 35 marked coins at random spread out over those 26,670 jugs and thats the odds for a 1943 copper. Even if you had all 26,670 jugs in front of you with those 35 painted bright red, it would take a lifetime to go through them. I find it fascinating! put the filled jugs side by side and it would reach over 8 miles! 84,480 pennies in a mile. 1 billion pennies laid out end to end is about 11,837 miles or just about a round trip from New York to Tokyo.[/QUOTE]
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