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In Trigun, Vash the Stampede is wanted for sixty billion double dollars
($$60,000,000,000). I don't remember any indication of how much money that
actually is in the Trigun universe. I'm sure it's quite a lot, but how much is
it really? Enough to buy a house? A power plant? An entire city?

![Vash the Stampede's wanted poster](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9KVBP.jpg)

So, **how much is $$60,000,000,000 actually worth?**


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How much is sixty billion double dollars worth?


The one indicator I know of (from the anime) is that that one city was able to
use the bounty from the Nebraska family, which was in the neighborhood of
$$600,000, to fix their plant, and that was more money than anyone in the city
collectively had at their disposal.

Judging from that, the bounty was probably enough to buy multiple cities, and
was in all likelihood impossible for the authorities to actually pay

The bounty was intended to be a larger-than-life number, and it would have
been an impossibly high amount of money in that universe.


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Well, in one episode, he buys a bag of donuts, about 10-15 of them, and pays
$$30. The average donut costs $1.20 (I literally just looked it up on Google
[[here]](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_the_average_donut_cost?#slide=1)).
If you round it to 10 donuts, it's $12. If you round to 15, it's $18. You can
safely say that one double dollar is approximately equal to fifty cents ($$1 =
$0.50) which, whether on purpose or a total lucky mistake by the author of
Trigun, makes a lot of sense, in a weird reverse way. So, by this (way too
complicated) logic, he is worth $30,000,000,000.00!


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I did the math. According to Google, an average donut is 0.99 dollars. I am
going to use the amount of donuts that another person who answered above that
Vash bought for $$30. He said 10-15 but for some reason he didn't go for the
average of 12 so using that you can find out that $1 is worth $$2.50. If you
divide our $$60000000000 by 2.50 to get the amount of real world currency, it
is $25000000000.


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