The cash-filled briefcase is a film traditional. In the event you’ve bought a major amount of money at hand over in any form of nefarious skilled setting, likelihood is it’s coming in a briefcase — normally steel, presumably with a handcuff to make sure that it isn’t separated from its service. It’s a pleasant, handy service, rectangular just like the paper payments it accommodates, and lends itself to dramatic rotations and openings throughout negotiations.
When the contents are lastly placed on show, it’s fairly predictable what they’ll seem like. A sequence of completely snuggled money stacks subsequent to one another, as if the briefcase had been custom-designed to carry one ransom’s value. It doesn’t even actually matter what the quantity desired is, it all the time appears to return out to precisely one case, as if the cash expands to fill the area like a gasoline.
I get that it’s all for the sake of aesthetics. Carrying two briefcases, one with a little bit of overflow knocking round inside, isn’t as clear. Conversely, as Dodgeball famously identified, a less-than-fully loaded case is very underwhelming in its personal means. “Haha I assumed it was going to be stacks and stacks of cash however then after I noticed just one stack I simply misplaced it,” popos22 wrote beneath a YouTube clip of the Dodgeball gag, talking for all of us.
But when a briefcase have been loaded up correctly with money, what can be the precise amount of cash in there?
First, let’s set up the briefcase we’re working with. Due to a Reddit put up, the go-to “silver briefcase” you’re more likely to see in a film is a selected one: the Zero Halliburton Traditional Aluminum Attache Case. No, an attache is not technically a briefcase, however that’s not what we’re right here for, so I’m gonna hold it shifting.
There are two sizes (small and medium), however based mostly on the trademark case’s look in Inception, and the truth that the small is just a foot in top, we are able to guess the film commonplace is the medium dimension. Its listed dimensions are 18x14x5 inches. A U.S. paper invoice is 2.61 inches broad and 6.14 inches lengthy. That makes our greatest wager for utilization of a minimum of the essential two dimensions to be two rows of six payments every, as illustrated beneath.
I’ll get to that vacant area in a second, however with U.S. payments being .0043 inches thick, it’s merely a matter of calculating 5 inches divided by 0.0043, which supplies us 1,162.79 payments. 1,162 (I’m rounding down despite the fact that compression would possibly permit one other invoice to be crammed in) occasions 12 offers us 13,944, which, assuming they’re made up of the normal Benjamins, means $1,394,400.
If you need all of your cash to put neatly and sq., and do not thoughts a bit of unfavorable area, there’s your reply.
Since I’m this far down the rabbit gap, although, let’s see what it will be if we have been really making an attempt to min-max, to the tune of filling these ugly gaps on the perimeters with payments positioned on their facet.
For starters, we’ll drop in two stacks of sideways hundos subsequent to the present rows, the place the two.34 spare inches permits two stacks of 544 hundred greenback payments, for a further $108,800. Then, we’ll fill in sideways payments alongside the highest, which might permit for 2 stacks which are 1.72 inches deep every. This, remarkably, is precisely sufficient area for 400 payments a bit. Including one other $80,000 to our whole.
This may nonetheless go away a bit of dice of unused area within the high that measures out to five.72×1.72×5 inches. Becoming any extra can be unattainable with out sophisticated invoice origami, so I’m going to exclude it each based mostly on the ceiling of my math expertise and the truth that it will look messy. That means that with each central stacks and crammed facet areas, a steel suitcase stuffed to the gills would include $1,583,200.
There’s your reply, for what it’s value. Pun fully unavoidable.
