Withdraw ALL OF IT in pennies! Canadian pennies (which are no longer in production) and make a giant penny fortress!
A penny is 19.05mm in diameter and 1.45mm in thickness
689 pennies stacked is 999.05mm tall
52 pennies in a line is 990.6mm long
placing pennies like this makes a cube of about 980356.1361cm^3 (19643 short of a cubic meter)
(I can get closer with 690*52*53, but I don't want the pennies stacked higher than a meter and I want the width to be the same as the length)
a precise amount of packaging material and adhesive will be put between the pennies to make the block a perfect cubic meter.
689*52*52 = 1863056 pennies
or $18,630.56
the mass of a Canadian penny varies by the year they are made, but I estimate that a cubic meter of pennies will weigh 4,375 Kg on average.
with $100,000,000,000.00 (Can), I can afford 5,367,525 of these penny blocks, which will make a damn good fortress! Although, I might want to save a few billion for labour, landscaping, shipping and other expenses.
[link]http://www.coinscan.com/technical/canasp.html[/link]
edit: Come to think of it, I don't think that many Canadian pennies exist(10 trillion pennies?)....
only 34,996,960,265 pennies have ever been minted in Canada (AND I WILL FIND ALL OF ZEM), this can only make a measley 18,784 of my penny blocks.... still enough for a decent fortress I guess : [
So I shall use the remaining $99,650,030,397.35 to....
--hire an army of 10,000 little people at a wage of $50,000 a year on contract for the next 60 years
balance:99,650,030,397.35
cost of army contract:$30,000,000,000
new balance: $69,650,030,397.35
--Pay for a legal name change for each one of these people to various dwarven names of their choice (it has to sound dwarven, and only my high ranking elite officer may be named Gimli)
*cost of a legal name change in Canada is approximately $150
balance:$69,650,030,397.35
cost:$ 1,500,000
new balance:$69,648,530,397.35
--Arm these little people with custom weaponry,
including: 3000 battle axes($100/unit), 2000 war hammers($100/unit), 2000 morning star maces($200/unit),1000 flails($100/unit), 1000 lances ($300/unit),1000 crossbows($1000/unit), 3000 full plate mail suits ($4500/unit), 8000 chain mail suits ($1500/unit) and 1,000,000 frag grenades($5 per unit)
balance:$69,648,530,397.35
cost:$32,800,000.00
new balance:$69,615,730,397.35
(obviously I am not spending this money fast enough)
--Free Ferrari Enzos for every soldier! $644,000/unit * 10000
balance:$69,615,730,397.35
cost:$6,440,000,000.00
new balance:$63,175,730,397.35
(barely a dent)
--a stockpile of 6 inch (15.24 cm) diameter solid gold cannon balls
*Volume= pi/6*diameter^3, =3.14/6*15.24^3 = 1853 cm^3
*Density of gold is 19.3g/cm^3; total mass = 35769g (1262 oz)
*gold price is currently 1615.61/oz ; total price = $2,038,457.24 per ball
*I will purchase 10,000 of these cannon balls
balance:$63,175,730,397.35
cost:$20,384,572,400.00
new balance:$42,791,157,997.35
The remainder of my fortune will be used to develop a cannon capable of firing a 35kg solid gold cannon ball AT THE MOON; I will manufacture 10 units of this canon!
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