Twice as big as Petit Jean Mountain: How big is the $910,000,000 Mega Millions jackpot?
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – People dream of riches with the next Mega Millions jackpot reaching an estimated $910 million, and while folks may have thoughts on how they would spend it, it can be hard to understand just how physically big that much cash would be.
According to a calculator on the TaxAct website, winning the jackpot would cost up to $291,200,000 in taxes, leaving you with $618,800,000.
Putting $618,800,000 into pennies would weigh 341,055,120 pounds. In comparison, that works out to just over 243,000 moose of average weight.
But let’s talk folding money, that amount in $100 bills would weigh 13,642 pounds. This is only 642 pounds above the weight of a typical African male bush elephant.
That would be 6,188,00 $100 bills or 600 miles of those same bills laid end-to-end. That line of bills could stretch from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other, and back again. For that matter, you could stretch that line of $100 bill back and forth across the English Channel nine times.
Or you could take it to Reynolds Razorback Stadium, where it would go back and forth across the 100-yard field of play 700 times with 38 yards left over.
As a stack, your jackpot in $100 bills would be just over 2,200 feet tall, meaning it is twice the height of Petit Jean Mountain.
Little Rock’s Simmons Tower, the tallest building in the state, is 547 feet tall, so your pile of winnings would be four stacks, each the size of the Simmons Tower.
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has raised $1.2 billion across 720,000 college scholarships since its 2009 start while providing $167 million in tax revenue. Information on the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery and a check of the winning number may be found at MyArkansasLottery.com.
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