A bushel of fifties. . .
 

What possesses people to ask "can I pick something up for you" when they're headed to the bank? Of course you can. Grab me a bushel of fifties. This has been my response to that question for years. It never occurred to me to actually figure out how much money that would be. Today, being the slow day that it is, seemed a good time to do so.

One Bushel: 1.2844 cubic feet, which equals 2,219.4422 cubic inches.
One US Currency Note: 2.61" by 6.14" by .0043" .
One sheet of ten US Currency notes would be 13.05x12.28x.0043, Good?

So, 100 sheets would be .43" high. 1000 sheets=4.3 and 3000 sheets would measure 8.6" high. 3,220 sheets works out to be 13.846 inches high and have a volume of (multiply 13.05 x 12.28 x 13.846) 2218.876884. Which is pretty darn close.

OK? Any major flaws so far?

Then you take your number of sheets and multiply by ten (remember, each sheet was 2x5 bills) 32,200. Multiply that by fifty (because I'm not smart enough to ask for a bushel of hundreds )... equals $1,610,000.00

Only problem is I don't know how to figure for the spaces between the stacks of money or those convenient little wrappers they stick around every fifty or hundred bills. What do you think?

If they're still in sheets, they won't have wrappers.

And you'll need a good pair of scissors. :)

:crazy:

I mean... Neat! :thumbsup:

Yes, yes, I know. But it's not easy to pretend you're working when youve nothing better to do than data entry. :p

Where did you get that? My sheets have 4 x 8 or 32 bills. :confused:

if you want to know if your calculations are accurate, stop by my office next payday. make sure it is before noon though, i wouldn't want you to come late and find that i've already cut them into individual bills for my weekly nude money rolling-about event.