Re: [math-fun] the volume of the debt, us and france, or the volume of a pile of euros or american quarter.

Simon Plouffe:

I was talking to a person the other day, I could clearly see that the person could not understand what enomous amount is represented by the debt of countries like US or France.

A one-trillion-dollars in $100-bills page has been on the net for a couple of years. It doesn't use your reference coins but nevertheless serves your purpose. (Better perhaps because folk still think of $100 as a sizable amount while a quarter is, well, not so much.) http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/ The picture of 11 trillion dollars (the U.S. national debt two years) ago is here: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/pallet_x_10000_x_11.jpg