/sci/ - Science & Math

probably around 10 million

18.350.000 ish

There are pictures from a real drug raid in which $250,000,000 was confiscated. It's stacked in the same way as that but was actually slightly larger which is incredible. It also looked like mostly hundreds were visible. I know Walt supposedly wasn't making this much, and you can chalk this up to a lack of meticulousness on their part, but considering that's esentially the same size as a real stack of cash which was counted to be $250,000,000, if you subtract approximately 25% and factor in the random variation of bill amounts I'd say that's 'bout $350.

this is 100.000.000 in 100ses

so 20.000.000 in 20ses.

looks slightly smaller than ops pictures. so 25-30 millions

>>5022709
Maybe some of it is $1 bills.

>>5022709

Tree-fiddy you say? Goddamn Lockness Monster and his drug dealin'.

>>5022709

I chuckled.

Wow, just looking at that giant pile of money makes me feel like I should be wearing a top hat.

I'll take a stab at it:


Counting the resolvable stacks of bills length-wise, height-wise, and width-wise we get (respectively) 12, 15, and 45 stacks. That's 8100 stacks of bills. Of course, we can't be completely sure of this measurement - some of the stacks are angled, there may be gaps in some sections, you've got randomly distributed bills on top, etc. So we'll give ourselves a nice margin of error, say, +/- 5% to account for these sorts of things.

Now, standard stack size for money counters is 50 bills, so that's roughly 405,000 individual bills (again, +/- 5%). But there are multiple denominations, so what's likely to be in there?

Well, let's assume the distribution of bills is comparable to the availability of US currency. According to the US treasury, as of 2009 the following denominations comprised (approximately) the following percentage of US currency in circulation (according to the treasury, Federal Reserve Notes make up 99% of all US currency in circulation so we can ignore coins)
$1 - 42%
$2 - 1%
$5 - 6%
$10 - 6%
$20 - 11%
$50 - 6%
$100 - 28%

Now, some of these are irrelevant, after all Walt's operation has moved way beyond the days of pushing meth on the streets. They're selling by the kilo at this point, so we can safely assume there's not likely to be anything smaller than a $20 in our pile. So, looking only at the percents relative to one another we should get that

24% should be $20 = $1,944,000
14% should $50 = $2,835,000
62% should be $100 = $25,110,000
Which gives us $29,889,000

So, rounding it off - there's $30 million dollars in that pile (give or take about $1.5 million)


Congratulations Walter! You're now the richest ex-chemistry teacher in the United States!

... now if you could just remember not to leave incriminating evidence sitting on the can.

>tfw you will NEVER have so much money you need to rent a storage locker to keep it all in

>>5023085

Was that the season's ending btw?

>>5023251
Final season is split into two halves. Season resumes in like fucking June or something.

>>5023085
Hey, you finally tripped up.

>>5023208
Because a sane person would keep it in a bank account?
The only reason they keep it there is because it hasn't been laundered, a problem that few normal people face

about tree fiddy

>>5023316
I've had a trip for about eight months now. I assume you're referring to the other guy.

It seems I'm so often confused for him these days.

>>5023085
You know 30 million dollars is roughly Bryan Cranston's net worth too.

>>5023959
So the question is: Are there more similarly successful actors, or are there more similarly successful meth kingpins?

>>5023950
Nah we know who you are. You actually use a tripcode so we could ignore you more efficiently if we wanted to. Funny that you're also the one we don't really want to ignore.

Is that irony? I might have to dig out that oatmeal comic.

>>5023959
It's also just over 40 times the $747,000 Walt calculated he would need to leave his family behind.

>>5023085

Not bad, not bad at all. I've been scoping out projections over in the /tv/ thread along with this one at >>25593666 and figured I'd use your estimated percentages to recalculate. Since Vince Gilligan stated in the podcast that the prop handlers that were responsible for that pile of fake cash stated it was somewhere between $80-85 million, let's see how the revised percentages work out.

Using my estimation of a pile that's 12 columns wide, 15 rows deep, and we'll say a median amount of 57 layers (a $100 stack is .43 inches tall when done professionally but given this money is handled and somewhat imperfectly "flat" we'll say it's a nice even .50 inch per stack) that works out to 25 inches tall. Given the visuals in the episode (the storage room has 8 foot walls, the divider bar is at the 48" mark (right side of the storage room as seen from the front), the stack is just over the halfway point (and about halfway into Walt's thigh) so 25" is a good guesstimate.

Given that info, our percentages using my estimation of the pile size work out to:

12 x 15 x 57 = 10,260 stacks

24% (representing the $20 stacks) of 10,260 = 2,462 stacks x $2,000 = $4,924,000

14% (representing the $50 stacks) of 10,260 = 1,436 stacks x $5,000 = $7,180,000

62% (representing the $100 stacks) of 10,260 = 6,361 stacks x $10,000 = $63,610,000

So the total (rough considering the slack shown in the visuals of course) might be close to $75,714,000

Yes, I'm bored, but there you go.

>>5022739

That is a standard 1.25m^2 pallet. They're easily standing in front of a 2m x 1.5 block

>>5023084 Now, standard stack size for money counters is 50 bills,

His counter goes up to 100

>>5024286

Reported for math on /sci/. gb2 /mlp/

>>5024286
Very nice! That's some great work!

>>5024286
Very nice! That's some great work! I hadn't considered the possibility that the individual stacks could be restricted to same denominations.

>>5024415
Good catch, that also makes a huge difference.

>multiple 200+ post threads about how much money it is
>Vince said it was about 80million
>still arguing about it

Did you aspie faggots run out of ceiling tiles to count or something?

>>5024441

>>5024441
It's a problem, a puzzle - half the fun is seeing what kind of different ways people come up with to try and solve it.

What fun would it be if someone gave you the answer right off the bat?

>>5022709

>>5024453

>It's a problem

No it's not. The answer is easily accessible to everyone.

Believe it or not, you're not actually Carl Sagan. And you're not even on the same level as him so these quirky little posts where you try to sound pithy are pathetic at best.

>>5024504
Why are you so mad?

>>5024504
on a scale from 1 to mad, how mad?

>>5024453
this isn't a puzzle.. it's just a sensible guessing game. Where is the puzzle?

>>5024571
It's like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. There are different ways to go about doing it. You could find the mass of the average jelly bean, the mass of a similar sized jar, and try and estimate the mass of the full jar. You could find the volume of a jellybean and try to figure out how many a jar that sized could hold, etc etc etc.

The fun, and the challenge, come from the fact that it's a problem with multiple ways to approach it, lots of different variables to account for, and different people will come up with different solutions.


Hey! That sounds a bit like science doesn't it?

>>5024629
>volume

>>5024629
>That sounds a bit like science doesn't it?

No you stupid motherfucker.

>>5024932
Well, uhm, I could be wrong, but isn't math a science?

>>5024395
But you are only giving 2 dimensions. This is 3 dimensions. If you look at knee heights, the palleted money is quite a bit taller than ops

What about foreign currencies? Who knows how many euros, rubles, and korunas could be mixed up in there!

It's just a box covered in a single layer.

>>5023085

There most definitely would not be 1,2,5, or 10 dollar bills used to pay a god damn meth druglord.

On the Breaking Bad insider podcast, they said the prop designers intended it to be about 80 million.

That must mean that the inner layers are mostly 100s

>>5025139
You know how I know that you've never been a drug dealer?

>>5024629

Sounds a bit like autism to me.