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MONEY (continued): • If someone gave you a million one dollar bills, you would need a box three and a half feet wide by two feet deep by five feet long to carry it all, Answer: which isDell. approximately the size of a coffin. A VERY LARGE NUMBER • There are only 7 denominations of paper mon• ey Edward Kasner mathematician. 1938 commonly in was use atoday in the U.S.:In$1, $2, he was asked to come up with a name fordea $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. The highest very large number: the numeral one, followed nomination ever issued was the $100,000 bill, by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young which had a portrait of Woodrow Wilson on it. nephews what name they would suggest. It is no longer printed. • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name • About all billsAincartoon circulation $1 bills. out ofhalf the of funnies. striparecharacter Anamed dollarBarney bill lasts 18 months in circulawasabout very popular. Milton chose tion. A coin about 25 years. Barney’s lastlasts name for the number. announced new3/5ths nameintact for the • • AKasner damaged bill that the is still canbig be number in for his full next face book,value. alteringIfthe spelling. redeemed only 2/5ths left,years it can be redeemed forand halfSergey face value. • are Sixty later, Larry Page Brin Less than that andinternet it's worthless. developed a new search engine. Other search3 engines searched webpage and • About out of every 10,000each bills are counterfeit. ranked them according to how many times a • Paper money is made on from 25% and specific term appeared them, butcotton Page and 75% andtheir 0% search paper. engine It's more like cloth Brin linen designed to search for the specific than paper. term and then find out how many links there were that led back to that page, • All 50 states are listed on the top of the Lincoln which resulted in a better search engine. Memorial on the back of a $5 bill. • They decided they needed a name that • Ifreflected an asterisk appears of thethe serialsearch numhow manyin front websites ber on a was bill, itsearching. means it'sThey a replacement the engine took the for name original, which was defective. of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only they misspelled it slightly, it ended being • There's about 1.2 trillion so dollars in up coin and spelled exactly the same way the cartoon bills in circulation in the U.S. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s • Ifit you have $10 inatyour pocket and no debts, called? (Answer bottom of page) you are wealthier than 25% of Americans. COMPUTER FACTS

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