NJRVer wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
It could be I have a bit of a disorder....I once calculated how much money the widow's mite would have grown to be if she had put it in an interest bearing account 2000 years ago with a guaranteed rate of return of 4%. The answer is unbelievable. Anyone care to fathom a guess? I assumed her offering was two cents.
My guess: Enough to pay a big chunk of NJ's pension debt.
That would be a believable amount of money. I said the number is unbelievable. I probably should have said incomprehensible.
Anyway the number is 2.33 times 10 to the 32nd power.
To try to put these incredibly large figures into some sort of perspective it is helpful to consider the number represented by a stack of bills. In this case a stack of billion dollar bills if such a bill existed. The stack of billion dollar bills would reach from earth to the sun and back over 850,000 times.
