The Mathematical Proof: Trillions to the Moon

Written by Julen Madariaga on December 11th, 2008

Hm, no comments. I wonder what the readers are thinking of all this. I can picture some scratching their heads and trying to type in lines of zeros in their office calculator. “RMBs to the Moon? Rubbish! Show me the money!”

Here’s my little math for the non believers:

4,000,000,000,000RMB * (0.015m/10,000RMB)  =  6,000,000 m = 6,000 km
… Idem times 100 …  = 600,000km

The Mean Radius of the Earth is : 6,371 km
The Average distance to the Moon is : 384,403 km

If you are very picky you might say now that my stack of RMB notes doesn’t quite make it all the way back from the Moon. But that is only because you didn’t take into account the crumpling factor.

My base observation was made on a stack of clean, freshly baked 100RMB notes. Now try to pile up those crumpled oily RMBs that taxis hand you as change, and see if you can not come back from the Moon and probably go all the way around again.

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