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Answer & explanation
Averaged across Visa's 2026 fiscal year, counting purchases and cash withdrawals.
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
11,300
times
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Visa is the biggest card company, so start with its cardholders. Call it 200 million people. How often does each one use a card in a day? Maybe 5 times, which makes about a billion a day.
- People with a Visa
- ≈ 200,000,000
- Uses each a day
- × 5
- Uses a day
- ≈ 1,000,000,000
- 1B ÷ 86,400 seconds a day
- ≈ 11,500
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Payments transactions
- 339.5 billion
- Cash transactions
- + 15.6 billion
- Total, fiscal 2026
- 355.1 billion
- ÷ 31,536,000 seconds a year
- ≈ 11,300
Reference cited by Fermi: Visa operational data, fiscal 2026: 355 billion payments and cash transactions
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