r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 5d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/Namaslayy 5d ago

5000 yards….of money (puts pinky to lip)

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u/pedantic_dullard 5d ago

You now have 5000 yards of Iranian rials. 1 IRR is equal to $0.000024 USD

If they're all 1000 IRR notes, you now have 30891 bills, with a grand total of $733.97 USD.

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u/UniquePlatypus3250 5d ago

More than I had before.

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u/Creepy_Fan_8629 5d ago

$20 is $20, and likewise $733.97 is $733.97

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u/souryellow310 5d ago

But you would have to pay to convert it and transport it.

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u/bard329 5d ago

Yea, but you gotta walk 5000 yards to pick them all up

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u/Standard-Check8531 5d ago

I work in a Hedge Fund and yard is used as a slang for one billion dollars. So if you had 5000 yards of IRR that would still be 120mm USD. Much preferable to the other outcome

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u/OldGodsAndNew 5d ago

Now do 1947 Reichsmarks

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u/stuffeh 5d ago

Almost r/monkeyspaw there

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u/rosolen0 5d ago

Monkey palm much?

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u/Kiyohara 5d ago

Congrats, it's in Monopoly money.

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u/Namaslayy 5d ago

Bah! Foiled again!

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u/Lemmonjello 5d ago

Ask for it in yamerican dollars

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u/ForayIntoFillyloo 5d ago

5000 dollar shaped yams coming up

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u/micmea1 5d ago

DESE ARE EUROS! ITS LEGAL EUROPEAN TENDER!

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u/_BlueFire_ 5d ago

More like "yards (cubic) of gold" I'd suggest

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u/fed45 4d ago

A cubic meter (close enough to a yard) of gold is something like $1 billion (assuming your new dragon horde of gold doesn't devalue it. So gotta keep it a secret). You're now the richest person in history.

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u/_BlueFire_ 4d ago

I checked before and ALL the gold in history is roughly 8-9k cubic meters, there would be enough of it to not only be the richest person in history but also make it available for extremely cheap to many applications that would need it. It would devalue a lot, but overall the society would benefit from this. And you'd likely still be the richest person ever or close enough. 

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u/fed45 4d ago

Very true. Similar thing with Diamonds, cost decreases in synthesizing them makes them more widely available/useable for industrial/scientific applications. Actually this makes me think my choice for this thread should be 5000 yards (cubic) of diamond, not diamondS (plural), diamond... as in a sinlge diamond with a volume of 5000 cubic yards.

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u/BottleCompetitive546 5d ago

But Dr Evil, that amount of money doesnt even exist yet

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u/ano-ba-yan 5d ago

So doing the math - if you were more specific and asked for real, in circulation, $50 USD bills - if you had 5000 yards of USD bills laid lengthwise, you would have 29,316 bills. So if you asked for 5,000 yards of $50 bills you'd have right around $1.46 million USD.

Now, if you asked for those bills laid widthwise, you would end up with 68,965 bills. Asking for those in $50s would put you right around $3.45 million USD.

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u/Namaslayy 5d ago

Bingo.

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u/_moan 5d ago

l×b(5000 yards)/ l×b( 1 bill ), now l and b can be interchanged for bill so why would lengthwise vs breadth wise would have any difference, damn is my math weak or what

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u/Major_Major_Major 5d ago

You know you can buy sheets of uncut money (USD). So, not a bad answer, depending on how wide the sheets are.

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u/corrado33 5d ago

Fun fact, dollar bills laid end to end would be $29,315. Multiply by whatever denomination of bill you want.

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u/Sh0toku 5d ago

5,000 cubic yards of Au (or Rh or Pt, if ya wanna get crazy!!!!)

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u/Obitrice 5d ago

Length wise or width?

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u/quietly_now 5d ago

5000 yards of 1c coins is ~$32,600

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u/Namaslayy 5d ago

But yards started with Y lol