Weigh a million dollars with your mind

[ConcerOR578]

Wait.... WHAT?!

[culwin]

Flamingos don't use boats

[jimbarbwe1985]

Money is not made from paper!!!

[MarineAquatic]

Well, you could also just say it weighs nothing, and that it is in space. A loophole.

[kberzok]

@MarineAquatic but it has a mass....

[lolague]

Ahhh and a pun to seal the deal haha

[ablestmage]

Not sure if this video is trolling or not.

[yatdal]

You lost me at "Money is a liquid asset" :P

[momookim]

i think he just assumed that paper money is a liquid bc it's a liquid asset.... wtf

[EliteGamerXX]

Your math is still off.

[cjpatz]

Interesing.. You kinda sound like Jesse Eisenberg.

[marcuelcajon]

Or... I could just use my smart!

[1PersonLaughed]

I'm just going to remember 2,000 pounds.

[12jmcgee]

So much people trying to seem interesting, shut the fuck up.

[bldubl]

Saw the title and was like "whaa-". Watched it and now i'm like "I am Ramanujan."

[justgesing]

Mind.. blown

[smackbabie]

"We know money is made out of paper"

Correction, it's a mix of paper, cotton, silk and linen.

just fyi.

[drfoxcourt]

The "evil genius" looks like a flamingo? Hah!

[314elitedarklord]

@Pagweb À briefcase with 100 Dollar bills is a lot lighter ya know?

[viakth8]

I would have calculated it by finding out how much gold can be bought with a million dollars. Then told said evil genius that the world had just scraped paper currency in fear of massive inflation and had thus had turned to gold :)

idk it seems like easier math if you know the price of gold XD

[Gr4yW0rld]

Oh so sorry, American dollars are made from cotton, not wood paper!

[melikelife1]

@Gr4yW0rld Cotton AND linen.

[tabaks]

@Gr4yW0rld Which makes your comment doubly vomitous, since $1,000,000 in dollar notes DOES weigh a ton. Go figure, you look an ass AND have proven nothing.

[Pagweb]

Now I know that all those suitcases with a million dollars in the movies are fake.

[tabaks]

@Pagweb There are other bank notes than a one-dollar one. So...using $10,000 notes, you'd need only 100 (10x10) of them. Easily fits into a pocket. Yes, I know what you're going to say. But, they DO exist, you just don't know how to search for the information. Hint: Google.

[muffin8or]

@tabaks

He's talking about weighing a million 'dollars' not a 'million dollars.' Do you see the difference?

[Pagweb]

@tabaks Well, I did check google and got to a wikipedia page. It says that the highest value in circulation is $100. Higher values have not been printed since the 1950's. So, you can't carry a million dollars with you now. Unless you have it on a credit card but that is another story.

[twiztidsidfreak13]

A dollar weighs one gram. I always check my scale with a bill before putting a bud on it. Any weed dealer would know this

[CODYCHA0S]

@twiztidsidfreak13 thats what i was thinking.

[tabaks]

@twiztidsidfreak13 Wow, I really do believe you're as cool as you think you are. Woot?! Yes, yes, I do, as cool as you were BEFORE you tried to fix it by bragging about weed. See, youre self-deprecation is deeply ingrained, in your subconscious self. Then, you "fix it" by making a post like you did. Sad.

[DuskmoonTodd]

ORRRRR you write him a million dollar check. 0.9 grams. BAM.

[TheNanobot73]

99 jelly beans?

[OutoftheblueNinja]

I will remember this the next time an evil flamingo kidnaps me and asks me what a million dollars weighs. Thanks bro.

[SophwiiLynne]

115 jelly beans.

[SophwiiLynne]

Why is the flamingo always the bad guy?

[kingsdaughter82]

and im too lazy to count...

[kingsdaughter82]

~100 jelly beans. cause you said so. :D

[ErickFlack]

there are 88 jelly beans...

[tolkienreadsmymind]

But money is NOT made of paper, isn't it made out of a cotton fiber weave? eh, I guess you are still right though, since the composition of the money doesn't really matter, because the mass is roughly the same.

[eran5005]

@tolkienreadsmymind that is very wrong, density and material type are crucial in these calculations! one mol (6*10^23) of Iron atoms weighs about 56 times more than one mol of hydrogen atoms, and one cubic meter of lead will weigh much more than one cubic meter of water.

[tolkienreadsmymind]

@eran5005 When I say "because the mass is roughly the same." I mean the difference between the special cotton fiber weave, and the paper, those two masses in the proportions of a dollar bill, are roughly the same, correct?

[eran5005]

@tolkienreadsmymind well, i can't tell you precisely what's in cotton fibers because i don't know, but since its organic material i assume its mostly carbon and hydrogen with some oxyge... but without knowing exactly how the basic molecule looks like its impossible to know, still i think i can safely assume its a lot more complex than a water molecule so one mol of cotton fibres will probably weigh a lot more than one mol of water molecules.

[1337frog]

first off. does this assume it is in ones? What if they wanted it in benjamins?

And second, the paper used in dollars has the same density of water???

[maeruth]

I Miss Math School :(

[petey19d]

it could weight just 0.9 grams if its a cheque

[Spunter11]

first of all good video! love this sort of humor! second, seriously? why has no one done the simple conversion? Dollar bill = 1 gram, 1 pound = 453.59237 grams.. 1,000,000g / 453.59237g = 2204.622621848776 pounds. so very close to the approximation nicely done! Whenever i watch your videos it sometimes takes me a while i have to run numbers (or look up equations) this one was easy mind you. you defiantly earned my sub! wish there was more channels like yours

[thetayproducers]

good thing none of those bills are two's, fives, tens, or 100s

[cyrusemerson]

88 JELLYBEANS

[cyrusemerson]

jellybeans!!!!

[BlackManSlim562]

i like how he takes simple shxt and makes it complicated

[aluisious]

Money isn't made from paper. It's made from cloth. So all your approximation immediately goes straight out the window.

Grats on another bad, bad video.

[ilovemesomejess]

@aluisious Well 25 percent linen and 75 percent cotton if you want to get nitpicky, but there still is about 490 notes in a pound, so using $1 bills the weight of a million dollars would be 2,040.8 pounds. E.G. A million dollars weighs a ton. He is still right in his approximation although it is easier to say paper than "a blended linen cotton mixture with red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout" Everyone has seen tv/the movies and knows it's not paper

[aluisious]

@ilovemesomejess He's just lucky that the approximation worked out. There's no reason to believe money weighs the same or takes up the same volume as paper, and the step from paper volume to water mass is absurd.

[1thelegoman]

I would guess 88 jelly beans in the jar

[joesuperman8]

crayola must make alot of money off of you

[TurtleCatJr]

is that assuming singles? because a million singles will obviously wiegh more then a million in 20's

[fyrstikknerd]

@TurtleCatJr yes obviously

[xero907]

Is a liquid asset? I think I'm being trololololled.

[oneeyedgeek]

Like with most of this guy'svideos, most of the commenters miss the point yet again.

[aluisious]

@oneeyedgeek Seems to me that the point is the guy is a bored physics student who likes to draw. These vids aren't accurate, and that severely limits any other point, like education.

[Exo594]

@aluisious It's the internet, who said it was accurate?

[TheBestJak]

ohh i see what you did there xD

[TheVerandaguy]

Thanks to ebooks and paperless offices, there are going to be a lot more people trapped on tiny islands surveyed by maniacal flamingos.

[wonpichit]

there is many answers it could of been wieghed in change and 1 dollar bills these are other key factors

[DrEnsamhet]

Or you could just beat up the Evil Flamingo and take his boat, he's a bird what does he need with a boat anyways?

[manodeldios666]

is that in 1's, 5's, 10's...

I'd just be a smartass and say like "100pounds, and if you broke it up in different increments of 1's, 5,s and so on it may vary"

[rsedivy2]

A desert island with nothing with an evil flamingo genius who will only let you off if you tell him how much a million dollars weigh?

HOW ON EARTH DO YOU GET INTO THESE SITUATIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE

[AwsomenessDefined]

@rsedivy2 i don't know man, cocaine is a hell of a drug

[628318darkartist]

I don't think money's made out of paper. I thought it was technically cloth.

[screwusernames0O0]

liquid asset? is that a joke on finance aswell?

[potsp]

what about coins, and bills? wouldn't the weight be different ?

[egor069ve]

why cant i use 100 dollar bills?

[99waterlife]

@egor069ve yep u are right take 2000 : 100= 200 pounds assuming the weight of the one dollar is the same as the 100 dollar bill . right ?

[MrMajugi]

@egor069ve Just remove two zeros from the 2000 pounds

[montazarmontazarmont]

@egor069ve Because it's a million dollars. So it's one million dollar notes.

[Tkforworld]

you had me going until the liquid assets lol

[xSpectrumGaming]

Sweet, now I can win every one of those "guess how many are in the jar" games.

[breadman32398]

what about the bill denominations? thats seems to be a variable in this so if the flamingo didnt tell you that he really would be evil.

[GuttORm321]

I LOVE PHYSICS!

[drewdane40]

1,000,000 dollars = 2,000 pounds? Inflation is a bitch!

[Stingler23]

@drewdane40 Thats awesome ROFL

[mets25]

I like your density equation

money=liquid asset

1 cm^3 dollar = 1 gram

[AluminumKnuckles]

What if you use twenties?

[Oriente7]

Luckily, your a drug dealer, so you know how much a dollar weighs, done.

[EpicVideoViewer]

No internet and no books? Use my biplane.

[bjncube]

"Money is a liquid asset so let's assume it weighs the same as water"...... WTF? You stuck on that island buddy!!

[ucanfindbillie]

actually money is made of 25% linen and 75% cotton. not vice versa.

[frankjohnson123]

1.15% error . . . not bad. Please don't refer to something as "weighing" a certain amount of mass, though.

[deafrockstars]

this is stupid

[gmam96]

@deafrockstars your stupid

[TheDrCN]

"A million dollars is a ton of money."

A ton of money weighs one ton. Next question.

[claudelebel55]

@TheDrCN Hmmmm .....what if we use 100 dollar bills. Is it still a ton of money ?

[Felzdor]

@TheDrCN That wasn't a question, it was a statement and he said it because 1000kg is relatively close to 900kg which was the answer to the actual question.

[NoNameC68]

@TheDrCN "A milion dollars is a ton of money, literally"

You literally just repeated the joke he made.

[tdubis70]

I like your minus green flamingo!

[chocobosROK]

Who said you had to use one dollar bills?

A flamingo asked the question, so I think it's expecting your answer to be in flamingo money.

[anernits]

common fax paper is 80gr/m^2, lets say a bill is 2 sheets thick = 160gr/m^2 rounded to 150gr/m^2. a dollar bill is 5*15 =approx 75cm^2. so 1m^2 is 10,000cm^2 divide by 75 =approx 133 bills, round up to 150 => 1 bill =approx 1gr. a million dollar bills = a million grams = 1000 kilograms = 1 ton. no need for harry poter books!

[zze4z]

@anernits yeah but by the time i finished writing that on paper i wont have eny room left for the next question

[aquabooks99]

@anernits impressive math! but using harry potter books makes it even more awsome!

[anernits]

@aquabooks99 actually, I don't have anything against the harry potter series or books in general, I just don't have a mental image correlating between the number of pages in a book to it's thickness. I'm strange :)

[aquabooks99]

I love that the evil genius is a flamingo...I always knew there was something wrong with the color pink!

[fuschianopolis]

@aquabooks99 haha. you mean minus green ? ;)

[aquabooks99]

@fuschianopolis lol right!!

[voodo133]

@aquabooks99 You mean that there is something wrong with the color Minus Green

[zeron82411]

@aquabooks99 *minus green. :)

[2deebeez]

@aquabooks99 other than that it doesn't exist?

[xaiber16]

@aquabooks99 You mean minus green.

[mearsy09]

@aquabooks99 You mean minus green?

[Overrice]

@aquabooks99 You mean minus green.

[ecbasketball70]

@aquabooks99 Its not pink its minus green

[animemaster9500]

@ecbasketball70 exactly what iwas thinking i'm going to walk up to ppl and tell them your not wearing pink that's minus green and when they argue with me about it i'll use the info i got from the video and say" physics just kicked your ass your argument is now rendered invalid."

[AmazingGrace3467]

@aquabooks99 Pink is minus green, so something IS wrong with it!

[turtlegoesnomnom]

wait wat about coins

[DarthFennec]

... I would personally assume that anyone talking about a million dollars cash means it in hundreds, not ones ... but I guess that's just me ... that certainly would throw your approximation way off though, I hope the guy gives you more than one chance to guess right >.>

[guymandudeful]

what about a million dollars in pennies. That'd be way off 2000lb

[anaikahas]

no one guess the jellies yet? imma go with 84 beans

[brianawesome100]

who the hell uses 1 dollar bills to get 1 million dollars?

[voodo133]

Those damn evil flamingo masterminds e_e

[Whizzper134]

What if he wanted it in tens? Or twenties. They all weigh the same as a 1 dollar bill...but are values higher...

[Whizzper134]

@Whizzper134 valued

[livedandletdie]

Ok Linen is made out of cellulose and cotton is made out of cellulose and paper is made out of cellulose... Cellulose is made out of sugars. sugar weighs about 1 gram cubic centimeter 0.9*1=1'000'000=900'000grams so still 900kg.

[icon182]

@livedandletdie yes, but the sugars are different in weight and molecular composition...

[avijit2671994]

What if i weigh it in 1 cent coins??

[Daneoid81]

Next time i'm trapped on a desert island by an evil genius who will only let me off if i can tell him the weight of a million dollars I'm sorted!

[starlynx4]

@ricktbdgc at least it was only a minute.

[popcornpoopz]

Yeah um.. we use coins.

[d3008]

evil flamingo genius..

[MarkonyTwo]

this is valid only if you have just 1 dollar bills and it might weight less if you had 100 dollar bills or 1000

[tigrisdyr512]

Money is made of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Not paper.

[024leoj]

@tigrisdyr512 Thank you. I have said this too and people just do not get it. I know he's just trying to make a point but it's hard to take seriously when he can't even get simple facts straight. He'll post back or some idiot will about checking on google about paper money. But you're right, not paper.

[kamikazeOS]

@tigrisdyr512 not in all countries ...in my country it's made of some kind of plastic...they changed it ..and it's much more resistant to washing, tearing,etc.

[tigrisdyr512]

@kamikazeOS Yes but he is talking about American dollar bills which are made of linen and cotton.

[ricktbdgc]

you fuckin loser waste my fuckin time

[d3008]

@ricktbdgc ur basically a waste of our time

[HardcoreGrampa]

324 jellybeans?

[RuniteBots]

Brain.exe was stopped working.

[AwsomenessDefined]

there are 81 jelly beans

[FrancisAlbrecht]

1:01

Actually, 1000000 US dollars = 645 869.66 pounds, not 2000.

^^

[SerialOfSam]

@HardcoreGrampa It changes depending on country. In the states it's made of paper, in my country (Australia) it's made of a very malleable plastic. Wikipedia is your friend.

[024leoj]

@SerialOfSam You failed too. U.S. money is NOT paper. It a mix of linen and cotton. Not paper. Wikipedia has lied to you.

[HardcoreGrampa]

Money is made out of cotton not paper!

[RuskePerson]

Hehehe, Talking about a Fermi Approximation and Harry Potter made me think of MoD.

[hunterx2591]

Ok... MONEY DOESN'T = ELECTRON. It is just a way of transmitting information just like a paper is. You could write on a peace of paper that you owe someone 1 million dollars, that would also be money. Just like paper would have weight N (mass kg... what ever) so do electrons. Yet still money can not be measured by weight (mass if you are picky) If MONEY = ELECTRON THEN you could say ELECTRONIC MATH PROBLEM = IM RICH

[AwsomenessDefined]

@hunterx2591 but see, he didn't ask for the weight of money, he asked for the weigh of 1 million dollars, or one million dollar bills

[DrQuijano]

The approximantion was good until you said "liquid asset" and used a clever little word play. A mathematician would've said "you're wrong" and leave you stranded then gone off to do flamingo things with other flamingos.

[MadeOfCATS]

Luckily, you're a physicist.

xD

[multibronybrony]

does not compute

[danielcarmi305]

That's assuming its all in 1$ bills. What about coins or bigger bills?

[hypergunkid]

Solution: "Oh, bite me." (Pushes off boat, rides boat away.)

[orangegold1]

Simple, America actually produced a million dollar bill at one point in history... It weighs almost nothing! haha

[kwazmokid]

yeah... because everyone knows that a cubic centemeter of water weighs one gram

[Templereaper]

@kwazmokid Hurr, of course they do, 1 liter of water equals one kilogram of water

[maagiapall]

@kwazmokid Actually, yes. It's basic knowledge if you've ever gotten past the 9th grade. If you haven't, you can be concidered as a very stupid person so it doesn't matter what you know.

[z11223344]

@kwazmokid

cant tell if trolling, or retarded

[IseeRightThrough2you]

Given that it could be in any combination of coins and various sized bills, you couldn't even get a meaningful ballpark figure.

[FrankieHullRules]

a million dollars weighs different amounts depending on which bills are given. $1 bill weighs the same amount as $100 bill. but but is a 1/100 difference in total weight. flawwwssss

[RENOTHEHYNERIAN]

Money is made out of 25% cotton and 75% linen. Not paper. done.

[flowiepanda]

@RENOTHEHYNERIAN No, not done. You're still stuck on the island.

[MilOurives]

@RENOTHEHYNERIAN 11% error. Done

[icon182]

@RENOTHEHYNERIAN Well, considering that the exact composition of a dollar bill is confidential, you have just made yourself sound very silly. Done.

[TheDurentator2000]

@RENOTHEHYNERIAN You have stolen my comment

[JamesNPanda]

@RENOTHEHYNERIAN he doesnt say its mass is the same as paper, he just uses paper as a reference to estimate the volume of the dollar, so it doesnt matter what material its made of until he estimates the mass of the dollar. he uses water,not paper, to do so:/

[LooCasper]

a million dollars can weigh barely anything =S

its called a cheque..

[shepidoz]

your wrong what if i paid in pennis?

[RedDragonHunter]

@shepidoz Well, you'd probably get arrested for indecent exposure.

[tankusfred]

@shepidoz How much do you charge per BJs?

[shepidoz]

@tankusfred i meant pennies

[tankusfred]

@shepidoz The fact you answered me back to correct the typo makes this so much more hilarious! XD