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From: kinne@asgb.UUCP (Robert W Kinne)
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Subject: Re: How Big Is A Trillion?
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 16:13:25 EDT
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> > A trillion dollars is a thousand dollars a year from every US citizen for
> > five years.
> > -- 
> > 
> >  Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
> 
> If it is interest free.
> -- 
> Yogesh Gupta                           Advanced Systems Group,

In Great Britain or Germany, it would take five *million* years.
(In the U. S., a trillion is 10 E12, in G.B. 10 E18.)