How many coins would it take to swim like Uncle Scrooge?
Do you remember the cartoon character Uncle Scrooge, a greedy duckling who kept a river of coins in a vault and used to take a few dips from time to time? Well, the folks at The Bill Fold decided to do some calculations to figure out how many coins it would take before someone could swim in the money like the Disney character.
After estimating the river depth of coins, how much the weight of gold, the height of the duck, and the height of one of the coin piles would be worth, they made several calculations, put together some charts, and came up with a crazy mathematical formula that, after solved, presented a result that would make Uncle Scrooge very satisfied: almost $ 1 million in coins per stack.
Richer than the richest man in the world
However, if we adjust this amount to current inflation - don't forget that the duckbill was raised in the late 1940s - the sum would rise to $ 9.5 billion per stack. Considering that the entire vault is littered with stacks of coins, even happier the miser would be: the amount would reach nearly $ 60 billion.
The site went further and, watching the image of the cow man skiing in one of his coin mountains, they estimated the speed, the slope of the mountain and the angle at which the duck appears to be watching the end of the ski slope., and came to the conclusion that Uncle Scrooge had in his vault around $ 400 billion. Not bad for a duckling, and a great incentive to start fattening the piggy banks.
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