How much is a million?

[xyzzyplugh]

Can you spare time for a little estimation? - Please.
How much would 1 million Pound coins weigh?
�1million in �20 notes, how much would that weigh?
How high would �1million reach in a single stack of �10 notes?
How many miles is a million feet?
How many years is a million hours?

[sddsddean]

OK xyz, in order, assuming a pound coin is an ounce(anyone know thw correct weight?) thats 27 tons 2020 lbs(or nearly 28 tons). Don't know how much a �20 note weighs. There are about 10*�10 notes to a millimetre(having just got my trusty ruler out!), so that makes a stack about 100 metres high. A million feet is 189 miles 693 yards and 1 foot. A million hours is 114 years 28 days 16 hrs (including leap year days). I think these are all correct, but no doubt someone will argue!!!(but then thats the whole point of this board!)

[Ewood27]

You didn't ask this, but I'll add it anyway. There have not yet been a million days since Jesus was born.

[lisaj]

This got me thinking and I came up with a ridculous sum: If you take Bill Gates at his prime, when Microsoft was worth a whopping $110bn, and calculated the interest on that in terms of a pile of one dollar bills, it would get higher by an astounding 1.5km each day!

[sddsddean]

I see I'm still going to the bottom of the responses. Come on Mr Answerbank, it can't be that hard to sort out!

[Gef]

A pound coin weighs 9.50g so 1 million of them would weigh 9500000g which is 9.5 tonnes.

[j2buttonsw]

If a �10 note was 0.1 mm thick then 100 000 x that would be 10 000 mm or 10 m thick (not 100 m).

[sddsddean]

Absolutely spot on j2, but xyz said 1,000,000 �10, not 100,000. So 100m is correct (I think!)

[j2buttonsw]

Sorry, I thought plugh meant �1 000 000 in �10 notes.

[sddsddean]

As my teachers used to say to me "answer the question asked, not the one you want to be asked". You are absolutely spot on j2. My apologies.

[xyzzyplugh]

Imagine that, a 30 foot high stack of tenners; But pressed flat; I guess if you took the elastic band off, they'd fall all over the floor! Thanks everyone for help - I had estimated 34ft and 8 tons so I was close.. time on my hands. :-)