Each Pokémon trading card is about 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches, and is about 1/80 of an inch thick. There are over 14,000,000,000 (14 billion) Pokémon trading cards in the world. These calculations can be used to say many amazing things.
If all the Pokémon cards were divided among all the people in the United States and Japan, then every person would have more than half a deck. (Translation: If people borrowed each other's cards, then everyone would be able to play after two rounds, and some would be able to play twice, assuming they know the languages the cards were printed in).
If they were stacked up, the stack would be over 2,750 miles high!
If they were all laid out over a one-acre area, they would still stack up 20 feet.
If they were laid out, they would cover over 30 square miles.
If complete decks (60 cards each) were laid out, they would cover an area of 1/2 square mile (320 acres)!
If they were laid end-to-end (the long and narrow way), the line could go to the moon and back; and have enough left over to circle the earth's equator 11 times, with 20,000 miles left over from that!
Without going to the moon, the line would circle the earth's equator 31 times! (That would be a line almost 6 1/2 feet wide going all the way around the earth.)
A line of half-decks would circle the earth's equator.
A line of full decks would go from the north pole of the earth to the south pole (halfway around the earth)!
If all the Pokémon cards were divided among all the people in the United States and Japan, then every person would have more than half a deck. (Translation: If people borrowed each other's cards, then everyone would be able to play after two rounds, and some would be able to play twice, assuming they know the languages the cards were printed in).
If they were stacked up, the stack would be over 2,750 miles high!
If they were all laid out over a one-acre area, they would still stack up 20 feet.
If they were laid out, they would cover over 30 square miles.
If complete decks (60 cards each) were laid out, they would cover an area of 1/2 square mile (320 acres)!
If they were laid end-to-end (the long and narrow way), the line could go to the moon and back; and have enough left over to circle the earth's equator 11 times, with 20,000 miles left over from that!
Without going to the moon, the line would circle the earth's equator 31 times! (That would be a line almost 6 1/2 feet wide going all the way around the earth.)
A line of half-decks would circle the earth's equator.
A line of full decks would go from the north pole of the earth to the south pole (halfway around the earth)!
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