thinglets: 639 billion (in context)

So Lehman Brothers has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $639 billion in assets.

Just to put that number in context, if a dollar was the size of a hailstone that was the size of a grapefruit that was the size of a football field, it would take 639 BILLION football fields to fit that many dollars.

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