Orders of magnitude (currency)
Factor ($) |
Long scale |
Short scale |
Money |
Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|
10−3 |
one mill |
$0.001 |
smallest unit of currency, used in pricing gasoline and computing taxes |
|
10−2 |
one cent |
$0.01 |
used chiefly for making change |
|
10−1 |
ten cents |
$0.10 |
highest common price per page for self-service monochrome photocopying |
|
100 |
one dollar |
$1 |
double cheeseburger at McDonald's |
|
$4 |
typical drink of "gourmet" coffee |
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101 |
ten dollars |
$10 |
wristwatch with quartz circuit |
|
102 |
one hundred dollars |
$100 |
VCR, microwave, or pair of shoes |
|
$400 |
approximate annual GDP per capita (PPP) for East Timor (2004, CIA World Factbook) |
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103 |
one thousand dollars |
$1,000 |
used car (15 years old, runs) |
|
$1,000 |
midrange personal computer |
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$1,000 |
approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Nigeria (2004) |
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$8,800 |
approximate world GDP per capita (PPP) (2004) |
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104 |
ten thousand dollars |
$10,000 |
cheap new car |
|
$10,000 |
approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Russia (2004) |
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$20,000 |
(Israel, Greece)–$40,000 (Jersey, Norway, United States) - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) in most first world nations (2004) |
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$30,000 |
cost of an Engineering degree from an average university |
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$35,060 |
annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of the United States, as of 2002 |
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$48,000 |
annual salary British firefighters asked for in the UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003 |
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105 |
one hundred thousand dollars |
$100,000 - $999,999 |
In the United States, a "six figure salary" is sometimes seen as a milestone of significant wealth, and indicator of social class. |
|
$100,000 |
small house far from cities |
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$100,000 |
cost of a Law degree from a prestigious university |
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$101,000 |
median value of a home in the U.S. in 1990 |
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$120,000 |
median value of a home in the U.S. in 2000 |
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$120,000 |
reward offered for capture of Ukrainian killer Nikolai Soltys |
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$200,000 |
amount donated by Australia to Ethiopia towards drought relief in 2003 |
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$750,000 |
amount of money found on Saddam Hussein when captured |
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106 |
one million dollars |
$1,000,000 |
huge house in suburbs, condo in densest inner cities |
|
107 |
ten million dollars |
$10,000,000 |
a small hospital |
|
108 |
one hundred million dollars |
$100,000,000 |
large city office building |
|
$264,000,000 |
estimated price of an Airbus A380 airplane |
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109 |
one milliard dollars |
one billion dollars |
$2.5×109 |
estimated cost of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber |
1010 |
ten milliard dollars |
ten billion dollars |
$15.83×109 |
Gross Domestic Product of Iceland |
$51×109 |
fortune of Bill Gates, world's richest man, as of 2005 1 (Reuters) |
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1011 |
one hundred milliard dollars |
one hundred billion dollars |
$100×109 |
budget for reconstruction of Iraq |
$236×109 |
Gross Domestic Product of Greece (CIA World Factbook) |
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$276×109 |
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, USA and others |
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$420×109 |
approximate United States budget deficit |
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1012 |
one billion dollars |
one trillion dollars |
$2.5×1012 |
approximate United States annual federal budget as of 2005 |
$9.06×1012 |
United States national debt as of October 2007 2 |
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1013 |
ten billion dollars |
ten trillion dollars |
$12.39×1012 |
United States GDP (PPP) as of 2005 3 |
$55×1012 |
global GDP (PPP) |
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External links
fr:Ordre de grandeur (monétaire)