tsig
a carbon based life-form
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How about pennies?
"$1 MILLION, NOW THAT'S A TON OF MONEY!
So how much does one million dollars weigh? Picture a pyramid of
100 Asian elephants. Their combined weight would be equal to the weight of
$1 million worth of pennies (250 metric tons). One million dollars worth of
nickels would equal to a herd of 40 elephants (or 100 metric tons) and
strangely enough, the weight of $1 million dollars in either dimes or quarters
is equivalent to nine elephants (22.68 metric tons).
There is no small change when talking about one million dollars. One
million dollars is equivalent to a stack of dimes one and a half times taller
than Mount Everest (8.4 miles to be exact), a column of pennies 96.3 miles
high, a 24.2 mile nickel tower or quarters at a slightly more manageable
4.3 miles." (Blockbuster $1 million challenge)