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0 pointstzury8mo ago0 comments

In case you wondered, $1M in cash ($100 bills) weigh approximately 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms).

Last week I was watching that episode of Better Call Saul where he carries $7M throughout the desert for 36 hours, and realized his bags were supposed to get ripped 4 minutes into the process.

Calculation by Claude:

Here's the calculation:

A single US banknote weighs about 1 gram regardless of denomination.

So 70,000 bills × 1 gram = 70,000 grams = 70 kilograms = 154 pounds.

That's quite heavy - equivalent to carrying around a large person!

Those 70,000 bills would also represent $7 million in cash

* edit corrected the pounds calculation

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hinterlands8mo ago

> In case you wondered, $1M in cash ($100 bills) weigh approximately 15.4 pounds (about 10 kilograms).

Your answer is incorrect. You asked Claude to calculate $7M, which netted 154 pounds, but you then divided it by 10 instead of 7 to get the weight of $1M.

Further, it's quite irrelevant here, as the display involves $1 banknotes, not $100 bills. The correct answer, without the need for an LLM, is: 1 million bills times one gram = 1 million grams = 1,000 kg = 1 metric ton.

actionfromafar8mo ago

That's perhaps the heftiest clue that it might not be actually 1 million $1 bills. Looks unsafe to perch it like that.

jjk1668mo ago

It's substantially more than 1 million $1 bills.

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