Friday 22 June 2012

If inflation had affected feet and inches the way its affected pounds, shillings and pence ...

Between 1931 and now, I would have 'grown' to be 1,500 feet tall ...

which is up to the top of the antennae on the John Hancock Center, in Chicago
(which is twice the height of Canary Wharf in London).

2 comments:

James Higham said...

That one's a little difficult to get a handle on, Trooper.

Trooper Thompson said...

If this helps, imagine you have a stack of 250 gold sovereigns, and the government comes and takes 249 of them, leaving you one.