tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350900071703238442.post4434588919786838927..comments2023-10-29T10:23:51.132-04:00Comments on Sully's Side: A neat site to visualize numbersSullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252150116803332194noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350900071703238442.post-46180430625603608212013-10-17T14:17:02.667-04:002013-10-17T14:17:02.667-04:00Visualising large numbers is fun! You can see what...Visualising large numbers is fun! You can see what one million looks like on this poster that I made (http://stickinsect.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/1-million-dots/). Not sure about getting this much in pennies though!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350900071703238442.post-32017835837960964492008-11-16T07:43:00.000-05:002008-11-16T07:43:00.000-05:00Walking through the pennies. . .Back in the 1970's...Walking through the pennies. . .<BR/><BR/>Back in the 1970's I worked with a fellow who cashed his first large commission check (several thousand - a lot of money then) and took the money in one dollar bills. He took the money home and strewed it all over their bedroom and waited for his wife to return home. <BR/><BR/>The next day he gathered up all the bills and bought the best used Corvette that he could get for the sum.<BR/><BR/>True story - for the bedroom part I rely on his telling; but he definitely showed up with a white corvette after taking one day off. The best part is that when he would talk about it he would say that having his wife come home and find the money was great; but the look on the car salesman's face when he opened the satchel and said he was paying cash was even better.Sullyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07252150116803332194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350900071703238442.post-38958252713638080802008-11-16T01:46:00.000-05:002008-11-16T01:46:00.000-05:00I seem to recall an episode of "I Love Lucy", wher...I seem to recall an episode of "I Love Lucy", where she says that rather than accept a large sum of money in bills, that she would rather get it all in pennies so that she could walk through it barefoot.<BR/><BR/>From that point forward, I was always fascinated with the idea of doing that, EXCEPT for the part where I'd have to count them out and put them into penny rolls so that I could deposit them at the bank.<BR/><BR/>***Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com