What does a trillion dollars look like? The gargantuan US debt has been visualized before, but never in $1 bills. Here I show what a difference adding a zero makes. I wanted to especially emphasize the difference between a million and a billion, as many people fail to understand how fast numbers increase algorithmically.

 

This piece was published by Visual Capitalist on Apr 20, 2023 and on Voronoi on Oct 25, 2023..

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CHART TYPE: (Algorithmic) Bar Chart, Icon Chart