Do the math

This handy chart will show you how to get rich! In just sixty four days you'll be rolling in the quadrillions! Now all you have to do is get out there and start collecting those pennies! Your total at the end of the 64th day:

$184,467,440,737,095,516.15

By the fiftieth day, you will have to start borrowing or collecting pennies from aliens, because you'll have to put over five trillion dollars worth of pennies on the board. That's more money than there is in the whole world!

At the end of your sixty four days, if you have followed these instructions exactly, (and assuming all of your pennies are modern day pennies that weigh 2.5 grams each) you will have over 50 trillion tons of pennies.

(Even more tonnage than that actually since you will have to use all the pennies issued before 1982 as well, and they weighed in at 3.11 grams.)

You might also need a few ladders, because the stack of pennies on the sixty fourth square will be over 7,278,544,852,315 miles high. That's 78,264 times farther than the sun. These numbers are so big, they go off the page------------>

1

2

4

8

16

32

64

128

$ 2.56

$ 5.12

$ 10.24

$ 20.48

$ 40.96

$ 81.92

$ 163.84

$ 327.68

$ 655.36

$ 1,310.72

$ 2,621.44

$ 5,242.88

$ 10,485.76

$ 20,971.52

$ 41,943.04

$ 83,886.08

$ 167,772.16

$ 335,544.32

$ 671,088.64

$ 1,342,177.28

$ 2,684,354.56

$ 5,368,709.12

$ 10,737,418.24

$ 21,474,836.48

$ 42,949,672.96

$ 85,899,345.92

$ 171,798,691.84

$ 343,597,383.68

$ 687,194,767.36

$ 1,374,389,534.72

$ 2,748,779,069.44

$ 5,497,558,138.88

$ 10,995,116,277.76

$ 21,990,232,555.52

$ 43,980,465,111.04

$ 87,960,930,222.08

$ 175,921,860,444.16

$ 351,843,720,888.32

$ 703,687,441,776.64

$ 1,407,374,883,553.28

$ 2,814,749,767,106.56

$ 5,629,499,534,213.12

$ 11,258,999,068,426.24

$ 22,517,998,136,852.48

$ 45,035,996,273,704.96

$ 90,071,992,547,409.92

$ 180,143,985,094,819.84

$ 360,287,970,189,639.68

720,575,940,379,279.36

1,441,151,880,758,558.72

2,882,303,761,517,117.44

5,764,607,523,034,234.88

11,529,215,046,068,469.76

23,058,430,092,136,939.52

46,116,860,184,273,879.04

92,233,720,368,547,758.08

Of course no one has ever done this. The Psychotic Advisor doesn't actually expect you to be the first to succeed at it, but it does graphically illustrate the value of a penny. So keep saving, and hang in there. By the way, the next time some buffoon tells you that the American monetary system no longer needs the penny, or that the penny is too costly to produce and should be discontinued, please refer them to this article. Thanks!

Now that you have taxed your brain,

Enjoy Some Mindless Violence!

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