Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:23 am
Bill Gates
Just how much money does bill gates have?
Here are some useless facts I found out...enjoy.
According to CNN FN, as of 6/22/2003 , the price of gold is $356.65 per troy ounce.
There are 147 million troy ounces of gold in Fort Knox. (Fort Knox is the United States primary repository for its gold reserves.)
All the gold in Fort Knox is, therefore, worth $52,427,550,000 or $52.43 Billion
Bill is worth 60.40% the value of all the gold in Fort Knox.
If Bill wanted to spend all his time playing Pac-Man, assuming each 25¢ game lasts 10 minutes (he isn't very good at it), Bill could play for 2,408,570.40 Years.
It cost Mike Tyson $3 million (he forfeited 10% of the fight purse) when he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in a boxing match. Assuming that piece of ear weighed about 1/2 an ounce, Bill could afford to eat 329.89 pounds of Evander Holyfield if he were so inclined.
since 1986, when Microsoft was founded (and through 2000), only 56,489,600,000 $1 bills have been printed. Bill's $31,670,292,309.04 comprise 56.06% of that total
If you had 31,670,292,309 one dollar bills, and laid them end to end, you would have a line of bills that runs 3,069,055.1 miles.
Rand McNally says that it's 2912 miles from New York City to Seattle. Laying bills end to end, you could make that round trip 526.9 times.
The average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. You could make that round trip 6.4 times.
If you spent 24 hours a day laying these bills end to end, and were able to sustain a rate of 2 bills per second, it would take you 502.12 years to complete the job.
If you took 31,670,292,309 one dollar bills, and could actually balance them in a stack, that stack would be 11,327,000.1 feet or 2,145 miles high.
What if Bill decided to keep all his cash under his mattress? Let us assume that Bill and Melinda sleep on a King Size mattress. According to the folks at Slumberland Furniture, an American King Sized bed is 78 by 80 inches, or 6240 square inches, or 43 1/3 square feet in area. It takes 397.57 bills to cover a king-sized mattress. Using all of Bill's money (as $1 bills), you could cover the king-sized mattress with bills 79,659,482.85 bills deep. That means Bill would have a jump of 341,886.19 inches or 5.39 miles to get from the bed to the floor each morning, not counting the thickness of the bed itself.
What if Bill decided to keep all his cash under his mattress? Let us assume that Bill and Melinda sleep on a King Size mattress. According to the folks at Slumberland Furniture, an American King Sized bed is 78 by 80 inches, or 6240 square inches, or 43 1/3 square feet in area. It takes 397.57 bills to cover a king-sized mattress. Using all of Bill's money (as $1 bills), you could cover the king-sized mattress with bills 79,659,482.85 bills deep. That means Bill would have a jump of 341,886.19 inches or 5.39 miles to get from the bed to the floor each morning, not counting the thickness of the bed itself.
Wall-to-Wall Carpeting
If you took all these bills, and placed them all flat on the ground so they didn't overlap, they would cover an area of 79,244.79 acres or 123.82 square miles.
You could cover the entire surface area of Vatican City with dollar bills 728.85 times. That would be to a depth of 3.12 inches.
Bill's fortune is worth 217,167,718,690.56 or 217.17 Billion sheets of paper.
A typical type of paper stacks 250 sheets to the inch. Bill's college essay would stack 868,670,874.76 inches high or 13,710.08 miles high.
It would take 573.46 Years to print it out of a Laser Printer doing 5 pages per minute.
Let's say you wanted to spend every dime of Bill's money, and you set a time limit of 12 years to do it. Assuming you worked 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, you would have to spend it at the following rates:
Per year $2,639,191,025.75 $2.64 Billion
Per month $219,932,585.47 $219.93 Million
Per week $50,578,593.82 $50.58 Million
Per day $7,225,711.22 $7.23 Million
Per hour $301,071.30 $301.1 Thousand
Per minute $5,017.85 $5 Thousand
Per second $83.63 $83
So with all this money, what can Bill buy? Let's look around...
Item to purchase Cost Number Bill can afford
Copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional $299.95 105,585,238
(105.59 Million)
NASA's Space Shuttle $1.7 Billion 18.62
Pfizer's Viagra tablets $10 3,167,029,230
(At one per day, that'll last him 8,670,853.47 years.)
The 1997 movie "Titanic" $200 Million 158
Boeing 747-400 Commercial Airplane $156 million 203.01
Michael Jordan's 1997-98 Bulls Salary (not counting endorsements and movies) $31.3 million 1,011.83
2002 Bentley Azure Exotic Convertible $370,790 85,413
(85.4 Thousand)
2002 Kia Rio Compact Sedan $9249 3,424,185
(3.42 Million)
Four Years' tuition, room & board at Harvard University (at 2002-2003 rate: $32,523/year) $130,092 243,445.34
(243.4 Thousand)
Post Merge:
Not all of the numbers add up to all the money he has but most of it just gives you a view that he is rich.
Here are some useless facts I found out...enjoy.
According to CNN FN, as of 6/22/2003 , the price of gold is $356.65 per troy ounce.
There are 147 million troy ounces of gold in Fort Knox. (Fort Knox is the United States primary repository for its gold reserves.)
All the gold in Fort Knox is, therefore, worth $52,427,550,000 or $52.43 Billion
Bill is worth 60.40% the value of all the gold in Fort Knox.
If Bill wanted to spend all his time playing Pac-Man, assuming each 25¢ game lasts 10 minutes (he isn't very good at it), Bill could play for 2,408,570.40 Years.
It cost Mike Tyson $3 million (he forfeited 10% of the fight purse) when he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in a boxing match. Assuming that piece of ear weighed about 1/2 an ounce, Bill could afford to eat 329.89 pounds of Evander Holyfield if he were so inclined.
since 1986, when Microsoft was founded (and through 2000), only 56,489,600,000 $1 bills have been printed. Bill's $31,670,292,309.04 comprise 56.06% of that total
If you had 31,670,292,309 one dollar bills, and laid them end to end, you would have a line of bills that runs 3,069,055.1 miles.
Rand McNally says that it's 2912 miles from New York City to Seattle. Laying bills end to end, you could make that round trip 526.9 times.
The average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. You could make that round trip 6.4 times.
If you spent 24 hours a day laying these bills end to end, and were able to sustain a rate of 2 bills per second, it would take you 502.12 years to complete the job.
If you took 31,670,292,309 one dollar bills, and could actually balance them in a stack, that stack would be 11,327,000.1 feet or 2,145 miles high.
What if Bill decided to keep all his cash under his mattress? Let us assume that Bill and Melinda sleep on a King Size mattress. According to the folks at Slumberland Furniture, an American King Sized bed is 78 by 80 inches, or 6240 square inches, or 43 1/3 square feet in area. It takes 397.57 bills to cover a king-sized mattress. Using all of Bill's money (as $1 bills), you could cover the king-sized mattress with bills 79,659,482.85 bills deep. That means Bill would have a jump of 341,886.19 inches or 5.39 miles to get from the bed to the floor each morning, not counting the thickness of the bed itself.
What if Bill decided to keep all his cash under his mattress? Let us assume that Bill and Melinda sleep on a King Size mattress. According to the folks at Slumberland Furniture, an American King Sized bed is 78 by 80 inches, or 6240 square inches, or 43 1/3 square feet in area. It takes 397.57 bills to cover a king-sized mattress. Using all of Bill's money (as $1 bills), you could cover the king-sized mattress with bills 79,659,482.85 bills deep. That means Bill would have a jump of 341,886.19 inches or 5.39 miles to get from the bed to the floor each morning, not counting the thickness of the bed itself.
Wall-to-Wall Carpeting
If you took all these bills, and placed them all flat on the ground so they didn't overlap, they would cover an area of 79,244.79 acres or 123.82 square miles.
You could cover the entire surface area of Vatican City with dollar bills 728.85 times. That would be to a depth of 3.12 inches.
Bill's fortune is worth 217,167,718,690.56 or 217.17 Billion sheets of paper.
A typical type of paper stacks 250 sheets to the inch. Bill's college essay would stack 868,670,874.76 inches high or 13,710.08 miles high.
It would take 573.46 Years to print it out of a Laser Printer doing 5 pages per minute.
Let's say you wanted to spend every dime of Bill's money, and you set a time limit of 12 years to do it. Assuming you worked 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, you would have to spend it at the following rates:
Per year $2,639,191,025.75 $2.64 Billion
Per month $219,932,585.47 $219.93 Million
Per week $50,578,593.82 $50.58 Million
Per day $7,225,711.22 $7.23 Million
Per hour $301,071.30 $301.1 Thousand
Per minute $5,017.85 $5 Thousand
Per second $83.63 $83
So with all this money, what can Bill buy? Let's look around...
Item to purchase Cost Number Bill can afford
Copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional $299.95 105,585,238
(105.59 Million)
NASA's Space Shuttle $1.7 Billion 18.62
Pfizer's Viagra tablets $10 3,167,029,230
(At one per day, that'll last him 8,670,853.47 years.)
The 1997 movie "Titanic" $200 Million 158
Boeing 747-400 Commercial Airplane $156 million 203.01
Michael Jordan's 1997-98 Bulls Salary (not counting endorsements and movies) $31.3 million 1,011.83
2002 Bentley Azure Exotic Convertible $370,790 85,413
(85.4 Thousand)
2002 Kia Rio Compact Sedan $9249 3,424,185
(3.42 Million)
Four Years' tuition, room & board at Harvard University (at 2002-2003 rate: $32,523/year) $130,092 243,445.34
(243.4 Thousand)
Post Merge:
Not all of the numbers add up to all the money he has but most of it just gives you a view that he is rich.
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