More Things Apple Could Do With Its 110 Billion Dollars and Olympic-Sized Swimming Pools

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Nitin Jain

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May 3, 2012, 10:02:19 AM5/3/12

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You may have heard that Apple has about $110 billion in cash reserves just sitting around. You may also have heard that, if converted to dollar bills, this money could fill about 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools. You may be hankering for some more hastily-calculated,hilariously meta statistics about what else Apple could do with $110 billion and Olympic-sized swimming pools. You want statistics about money and swimming pools? We’ve got your statistics about money and swimming pools.

With its $110 billion in cash reserves, Apple could:

Actually construct about 220,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools to put stuff in^[1]
Fill about 1,950 Olympic-sized swimming pools with pennies^[2]
Fill about 11 and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools with caviar^[3]
Fill about 1,096 Olympic-sized swimming pools with actual McIntosh apples^[4]
Fill about 2,501 Olympic-sized swimming pools with these Scrooge McDuck Plushes^[5]
Fill about zero Olympic-size swimming pools with Steve Jobs dolls, because no one is allowed to make them

And here is your “Apple’s cash reserves and Olympic-sized swimming pool word problem that none of us could figure out” word problem of the day:

What is the least number of swimming pools Apple could build so that the remaining cash (in dollar bills) fits into them?

Assuming Olympic-sized swimming pools cost about $500,000
and 2,190,177,157 dollar bills will fit in an Olympic-sized swimming pool