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Billion, not Trillion!

1 Trillion is 150 singles for every human alive



Oops - I was off by an order of magnitude. Regardless - the treasury prints about 5% of the total serial numbers each year and according to the links I provided they already cycle through serial numbers.


To be pedantic: you were off by three orders of magnitude. An order of magnitude is a 10x multiplicative factor.




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