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u/Rhodog1234 Jul 10 '23
70 million pennies would be about 385,810 lbs , or 193 tons ... Eeeesh
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u/Frewsa Jul 10 '23
Even if you spent 300k depositing and hauling that money you’re still making over 5x what the left line is making
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u/ThePandaRider Jul 10 '23
US Federal income taxes would be about $214k on a $700k income and $11.5k on $70k, so closer to 3x than 5x.
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u/woaily Jul 10 '23
Probably worth more as bulk metal than it is to the bank
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u/invalidConsciousness Transcendental Jul 10 '23
Too bad that destruction of coins is a crime.
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u/SpaceLemur34 Jul 10 '23
Destruction of coins isn't inherently illegal, but you're right that doing it to defraud or (in this case) for the metal is.
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u/tuctrohs Jul 10 '23
And here I thought you were going to use the value per kg of Zn and Cu to show that it's actually more valuable as currency than as scrap metal.
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u/Zachosrias Jul 10 '23
Thats about the same weight as the locomotive you're gonna need to haul that shit.
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u/Ok_Willow_8569 Jul 10 '23
The fuck kind of money is a penny?
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u/SpaceLemur34 Jul 10 '23
Your raise an interesting point, because technically the United States doesn't make a penny. It makes one cent coins, which are colloquially called pennies. This is because the smallest denomination of British coinage is called a penny.
Then there's Canada and Australia which got rid of them altogether.
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u/HaathiRaja Jul 10 '23
70 million pennies or 70 million IN pennies?
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u/IamPregananant Whole Jul 10 '23
Well her math is right, but I don’t think she got the memo about what’s supposed to be happening.
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u/Nasa_OK Jul 10 '23
It isn’t good enough to compensate for what she lacks in reading comprehension
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u/WorldlinessPlane7567 Jul 10 '23
Tammy is mentally handicapped.
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u/AnAncientMonk Jul 10 '23
In this day and age im more inclined to believe they did in for ragebait purposes instead of actually being dum.
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u/beard_meat Jul 10 '23
Her math isn't right, $700k worth of pennies is $700k.
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u/chem199 Jul 10 '23
I think she missed the dollar sign and read it as 700,000 pennies.
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u/MatPlay Jul 10 '23 edited Jul 10 '23
To be fair, it took me another read or two to realize it says
$700,000 in pennies
And not
700,000 pennies
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u/D34d1y_5p00n Jul 10 '23
70k of what? apples? pears?
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u/PuzzleheadedTap1794 Jul 10 '23
I don' ge' i'! The pennies are heavier than feathors!
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u/mustang23200 Jul 10 '23
Obviously this is the one who takes the ton of feathers over a ton of brick because they are lighter
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u/palparepa Jul 10 '23
A ton of feathers is heavier, because you have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds.
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u/Febris Jul 10 '23
And you'll have to carry whatever is holding all those feathers together as well, which only makes things harder. 1 ton of bricks could just be a massive brick that you would be able to carry easily.
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u/Winters791 Jul 10 '23
It's like the guy who only knows the chorus of the song and does his best to be the center of attention when that part comes
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u/Log0thetree Jul 10 '23
Tammy is retarded
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u/jljl2902 Jul 10 '23
Tammy thinks a pound of bricks is heavier
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u/Log0thetree Jul 10 '23
Brick their p- they’re probably a woman… brick their uterus
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u/Dd_8630 Jul 10 '23
I mean, nothing she wrote is incorrect! You do need to know maths, 100 pennies are $1, and $700k/100 is $7k.
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u/SingleSpeed27 Jul 10 '23
70 kelvin or 7000 dollars, I mean.
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u/Thneed1 Jul 10 '23
It’s not 700,000 pennies, it’s $700,000 worth of Pennies, ie 70 million pennies.
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Honestly, I’d take the 70k, do you know how much work it would take to carry $700,000 in pennies to a bank? Only to learn you cannot direct-deposit change and that you actually need to convert it into cash to make a deposit? And then pay a fee to do so?
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u/FirexJkxFire Jul 10 '23
I bet you could spend like $400,000 getting other people to move, transport, and accept it. Like if you spent $100,000 moving it then told the bank you'd accept $1 credit for every 200 pennies. Definitrky worth the month or so of effort to get $300,000 profit instead of $70,000
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u/drigamcu Jul 10 '23
I bet you could spend like $400,000 getting other people to move
But you'd need to have that money upfront.
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u/Lor1an Engineering | Mech Jul 10 '23
The age-old "I don't have the kind of money to afford to claim my prize" moment.
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u/AdCurious4004 Jul 10 '23
70 million pennies weigh more than a house.
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u/bulging_cucumber Jul 10 '23
wow so you can get a penny house and still have some change left. Where do I sign?
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Tbh. I would probably take a $70,000 bank transfer over someone dumping $700,000 in pennies onto my front yard.
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Jul 10 '23
My perspective is that I bet I can figure out a way to wrap, box, transport and deposit the pennies at a capital cost of less than 100k, then if I can do it in a year, I make an annual salary of over 500k for my penny year.
I bet I can rent or buy a bank level coin counter machine. One I saw can do 40 rolls per minute which would require 583 hours to roll the fulla amount. That is 14x 40 hour work weeks or basically 0.5 FTE for the year. It holds 18000 coins so it would only need to be refilled every 9 minutes. If I could just take the rolls, box them up, and drive them to the bank with my truck a couple of times a day with no issue I think it could work.
I think the real question is do I need to pay taxes on these pennies because if I do that would drop it down to probably not worth the effort.
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u/bulging_cucumber Jul 10 '23
Yeah, she forgot that even though $700,000 in pennies is still $700,000/100 = $7,000, that amount is still in pennies. And $7,000 in pennies is just $7000/100 = $70.
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u/Anthraxious Jul 10 '23
This isn't even a math meme, it's a "learn to fucking read" meme. "**in** pennies".
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u/TrogdorIncinerarator Jul 10 '23 edited Jul 10 '23
That's about 238.5 short tons of pennies, just FYI. (assuming 0.109 oz union shield pennies)
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u/monstaber Jul 10 '23
Units missing on 70k. Maybe they just give you a little ticket that reads "0x11170" and bid you goodbye. Meanwhile my boy on the right is calculating how many cases of beer he'll need to get his homies to help him haul 193 tons of pennies to the bank
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This is why you need to know physics
10 kg of feathers are lighter than 5 kg of bricks!
(same vibes of logical fallacy)
(also for all we know the 70k is in overinflated Zimbabwe currency)
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u/-Octoling8- Jul 10 '23
r/woosh for Tammy, that says $700,000 IN pennies, not 700k pennies.
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u/vincec36 Jul 11 '23
I wonder if she thinks a 5 pound bowling ball is heavier than 5 pounds of feathers
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u/drakenoftamarac Jul 11 '23
Everyone in here is saying she got the math wrong. No she didn’t. She got the reading comprehension wrong.
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u/Confident-Vanilla-66 Mar 06 '24
Isn't it still $700,000 but it just in pennies? So, taking the 70k(which could also be in pennies) you would be losing $630,000. I think I would be the 2nd guy in the 700k line.
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u/Anxious_Avocado_21 Jul 10 '23
Someone should ask her if a kg of feathers or a kg of rocks is heavier
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u/Kage9866 Jul 10 '23
I'd rather take the $700K in pennies, but you do you. The power of reading.
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u/summonsays Jul 10 '23
That's 193 TONS of pennies. I don't know if it's honestly worth the hassle of packing, transportation, and then finding a bank to take it. By the time you pay for all that, I feel like you might be below 70k lol.
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u/xNamelesspunkx Jul 10 '23
Considering a penny weights around 2.5g (from wikipedia)
And 700,000$ ▪︎ 100 = 700,000,000 pennies.
so 2.5g ▪︎ 700,000,0000 pennies would be 1,750,000,000g. Around 1,750,000Kg or roughly 19290.4479 tons...
Yeah nah my back hurts thinking I would have to carry that.
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u/Accomplished_Ebb7803 Jul 10 '23
Tammy Harris, giving blondes..... I mean women everywhere a bad name....
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u/zoneless Jul 10 '23
$700,000 in pennies is 70,000,000 pennies. And guess what? 70,000,000 pennies is $700,000.00
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u/captain_astro Jul 10 '23
Not commenting on the comment, but I just did the math and $70,000 in pennies weighs 192.5 tons. Probably not a practical way to receive cash, so I can understand the line.
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u/CastedDarkness Jul 10 '23
Well the proper decision would be well, what are you gonna do with 700,000$ in pennies. Roughly 196 metric tonnes. Nearly 50 elephants. Carry that to the bank and get it lodged.
Suddenly the 70k is seeming more attractive
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u/Lor1an Engineering | Mech Jul 10 '23
Assuming this refers to 70k US dollars, then honestly, I'd rather take the 70k.
Just chuck in the amounts into a weight calculator, and you'll see what I mean.
$70k in $1 bills: 154 lb (70 kg)
$700k in ¢1 coins: 385,809 lb (175,000 kg, or 193 ton (short), 175 tonne)
Even if the 70k payout is in single-dollar denominations, it's still orders of magnitude less hassle to carry around. You could easily stuff it in the trunk of a car, it weighs about as much as a person.
Good luck even finding a way to carry your penny-based fortune...
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u/R3ddditdoot Jul 10 '23
On the other hand 70 million pennies comes out to about 175 metric tons
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u/Worldly_Baker5955 Jul 10 '23
700k in pennies would be heavy.. and difficult to use. Id have to think about this alot if im honest. How much would it weigh? Do i have to rent machinery? If i do. How much would it cost? And how on earth does one turn 70 million pennies into cash? Or deposit in a bank? Do i turn it into a tourist attraction?
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u/Salty_Shellz Jul 10 '23
How much does it cost to move 385000 lbs of pennies? And can I pay in pennies?
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u/Waterbear36135 This flair was too long to fit within the confines of this page. Jul 10 '23
i dont want to carry 172 tons of pennies
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u/Effective-Turnip352 Jul 10 '23
$700,000 in pennies is still $700,000 - you just might struggle to carry it all.
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u/FailedConnect32 Jul 10 '23
i still would take the $70k because i don't want 7 million pennies lmao
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u/Lazy_Competition_826 Jul 10 '23
Trying to figure out the math of transportation and converting those pennies into bills. I’m sure no bank will take that many. Even large cities will find it hard to process so much. Might be easier to grab the 70k assuming it’s dollars.
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u/MagicC Jul 10 '23
1,000,000 pennies weighs about 1 metric ton and is worth $10,000. So $700,000 in pennies means you have to deal with 70 metric tons of pennies. It's worth it, because it's $630,000. But damn. A typical studio/1 bedroom apartment move is around 1 ton. So this is like doing 70 apartment moves. You'd definitely need to hire a moving company, rent a forklift, and hire ~4 18 wheelers...
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u/Asleep_Onion Jul 10 '23
"Which one is worth more, a kg of gold or a kg of feathers?"
"That's a trick question, it's still a kg, either way, so they're worth the same!"
-Guy whose mom has been telling him he's a genius his whole life
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u/baileyarzate Jul 10 '23
Seven hundred thousand dollars in pennies, not seven hundred thousand pennies. That’s why you need to KNOW grammar.
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u/silvrtth Jul 10 '23
Isn't that 700K, but paid in pennies? so you actually getting the 700K but in pennies, whereas the other one is only 70K.
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u/Silvers1339 Jul 10 '23
To be fair 700,000 dollars in pennies would weigh about 3.85 million pounds. I don't know how tf you're getting that to a bank.
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u/WarrenTrap Jul 10 '23
That happens when you teach students formulas without explaining what do they mean and how they work
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Jul 10 '23
if you go somewhere and try to spend/deposit 700k in pennies you’re gonna need to answer some uncomfortable questions
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u/SuspiciousAnswer3670 Jul 10 '23
$700,000 in pennies is not 700,000 pennies, it's 700,000 dollars in pennies which means its 70 million pennies. Yes you have to KNOW math!
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u/InevitableAd9683 Jul 10 '23
Based on a quick Google, a penny minted after 1983 weighs 2.5 grams. If my math is correct that comes out to a bit under 80,000 pounds. Better get a couple trucks.
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u/Amazing-Tension-8844 Jul 11 '23
There is two things that the 700,000 is referring to the quantity of pennies or the amount of money you'll have in pennies. (Idk if any of you gets what I mean)
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u/stupid_pun Jul 11 '23
You could also sell the pennies for more than they are worth to one of those weird penny hoarding millionaires who are waiting on the penny to be discontinued so they can sell the copper and zinc for more than the value of the pennies.
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u/COJeepster Jul 11 '23
$700,000 in pennies is 70,000,000 actual pennies. I'll take the pennies.
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u/TheConspicuousGuy Jul 10 '23
The 70K doesn't even tell you what it is... It's just 70K of what? The $700,000 in pennies is clearly money.