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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So google got fined 2x10 ^ 34?

The earth is made up of 1.33x10 ^ 50 atoms. An A4 sheet of paper is made up of 8.37x10 ^ 23. Let's assume roughly a dollar bill is 1/8th of an A4 sheet, so 1x10 ^ 23.

The atoms in the dollar bill (10 ^ 23) multipled by the fine total (2x10 ^ 34) is 2x10 ^ 57.

This means if every atom on the entire earth was rearranged into dollar bills you wouldn't have enough money. You would need to do that to a million earths to pay that fine.

Disclaimer: I half assed this math on my lunch break and I trusted Google AI results for the atom counts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~2 × 10^37 according to the headline, but yeah.~~ no, I miscounted.