One Billion Pennies

One billion, eighteen thousand, one hundred and seventy-six Pennies
[ Five school buses. ]
Each of these blocks represents one 9x11x41 foot school bus - as seen below. If you were
to stack all these pennies in a single pile, one atop the other, the stack would reach nearly one
above the Earth's surface.
Only in North America and the general scientific community is this number (1,000,000,000) called
a "billion". Most European countries call this number either "one thousand million" or,
in some cases, a "milliard". Enough international confusion, let's move on to ten billion.

value  $10,000,181.76
(Ten million, one hundred eighty-one
dollars and seventy-six cents)
width  45 feet
height  11 feet
thickness  41 feet
total weight  3,125 tons
height stacked  987 Miles
area (laid flat)  3,906,321 square feet (89.7 acres)

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