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Re: (TFT) Economics - size of gold cubes.



On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:04 +0800, Jay Carlisle wrote:
> Figuring out the total amount of gold that has been produced by man ...
> . Ten billion ounces of gold would fit into a cube roughly 25 meters 
> (about 82 feet) on a side. 

I read in a National Geographic that all the Gold 
that man has mined would form a cube 42 feet in
size.  ~1/8 your guess.  (Not too bad actually...)

Regards, Rick.
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