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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million


Trust me, I counted.

Apparently, staring intensely at a pile of cash while muttering numbers isn’t normal museum behavior. There are some clunky old Windows programs, niche scientific tools, and image analysis software that assumes you’re trying to count cells under a microscope, not people, penguins, or stacks of $1 bills in a Federal Reserve cube. If you knock 222 from each dimension (basically pealing away the outermost layer of money bundles), the math actually gets kinda close

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