"It has been ordered to pay $2 undecillion, a number so hilariously large it has 36 zeros in it (a million has six for reference). "

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"at least according to the World Bank’s estimate for the global GDP – around $105 trillion in 2023."

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/google-massive-russian-fine-4845946

Posted by Alex09464367

6 comments

  1. Is this a coincidence?

    What if Au Bon Pain lost this lawsuit and had to pay the plaintiff $2 undecillion?

    —Kevin Underhill

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

    “Even if Au Bon Pain conquers the planet and puts everyone to work for them from now until the stars die, they wouldn’t make a dent in the bill.”

  2. Well, they first wanted to fine google “one hundred THOUSAND dollars”, but then were told it wasn’t a lot of money and they were a bunch of imbecilions. Obviously they misunderstood.

  3. This number is so massive that trying to scale it down to give it some perspective doesn’t work as the numbers are still mind bogglingly big, but as an attempt… if Google paid this fine in instalments of the worlds GDP per second aka every single second of every day they paid 100 trillion USD the last payment would be made in 680 billion years, give or take a few billion, that’s around 49.2 times longer than the universe has existed to pay it off.

  4. log₂(2^n × 2 × 10^36) = log₂(10^100)

    n + 1 + 36 × log₂(10) ≈ 100 × log₂(10)

    n + 1 + 36 × 3.32… = 100 × 3.32…

    n + 1 + 119.52… = 332…

    n ≈ 211.48…

    Assuming it keeps doubling every week it’ll reach a googol (10^100) dollars in size in 212 weeks, or about 4 years and 1 month. Mark your calendars everyone!

  5. Part of me wonders what the chances are even a single dollar of that will land in Russia’s lap. It’s just so stupid.

    Or what the practical outcome they’re actually seeking could be from trying to do something like this in the first place, since I can’t think of it working their way at all.

  6. The same country that has caused unnecessary deaths to Ukraine and itself? Who bombed a fucking oncology hospital on week one of the war? The same country responsible for countless unaccounted for children? That country? Lol

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