![]() ![]() Of course, if the money is in smaller denominations, then it will be heavier and bulkier. Obviously, $80 million could not fit into 6 duffel bags at all. So $163 million would require 45.55 duffel bags. Let’s be very generous and say that a duffel bag is 2 feet by 2 feet by 4 feet – extremely generous proportions, but it still only adds up to 16 cubic feet. How big is that? Try a solid stack of bills six feet tall, six feet wide, and 20 feet 3 inches long!!! I have a Ford Explorer that could hide behind that stack with more than enough room to spare! The full amount of $163,000,000 would then be 6995.96 inches – 583 feet tall! Times the 1.25 square foot figure derived above, that’s 728.75 cubic feet of money. A million dollars, then, makes a stack 42.92 inches tall. It takes 233 bills to make a stack an inch high, or $23,300 in $100 bills. That gives a neat 15 square inches, or 1.25 square feet, for a bill. Let’s just round that to 2.5 inches by 6 inches. Size – “Our present sized currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is. ![]() They were throwing them around like they weighed 30 pounds. That would be 1,762.4 pounds, or 293.73 pounds per duffle bag. In Ocean’s Eleven, they have $80,000,000 in six duffle bags. If they are $100 bills (the largest in circulation), that’s $45,400 per pound. pound, therefore, there should be 454 notes in (1) one pound (Avoirdupois system)”, according to the BEP. Weight – “The approximate weight of a currency note, regardless of denomination is (1) one gram. Let’s look at just how much that amounts to (Yes, the following involves math – but fun math!). The web site is and it is amazing to me that someone with a sense of humor managed to sneak this address by the bureaucrats.Īnyway, in this movie, they steal over $163,000,000. I knew fairly closely how much money weighs and how much space it takes up, so just some simple math off the top of my head told me they were in error, but I went to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) web site for the exact figures. It was a good film, but they badly mangled the money scenes. I was moved to write this after seeing Ocean’s Eleven, the George Clooney version. Money in the movies is so frequently mishandled – that is, it weighs more and takes up more space than is portrayed. ![]()
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