• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    You owe the Russian government $20 that’s you’re problem. You owe the Russian government $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s their problem.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    “The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest…”

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      16 days ago

      Not really. Most people aren’t familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

      My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

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        16 days ago

        Your examples are with small enough numbers that indeed it can also be written out. Now if you please, write out 7.45•10^16

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          16 days ago

          It’s not about the size of the number, it’s about presenting information in a way that the average reader can understand and the best way to do that is to present it in the way that they’re accustomed to.

          It’s great that you and I understand scientific notation, but it’s worthlesss when you’re trying to get the average person to understand what you’re writing if they don’t know it themselves.

          To make myself clear, I’m not saying that scientific notation isn’t useful, I’m just saying that most people don’t understand it.

          For extra credit, 74,500,000,000,000,000 aka seventy four quintillion, five hundred quadrillion.

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        16 days ago

        Or just in the browser. Whatever app they are using is not following the same markdown as Lemmy, which supports only one level: 10^33^ = 1033.

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    16 days ago

    For those wondering how the hell the number got so stupidly large, starting somewhere in 2022:

    The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.

    By week 20 Google was already “owing” over 1 billion dollars and over 1 trillion by week 30. So expect the funny number to keep growing just because.

    In any case, I don’t think Google will come back to Russia anytime soon. Probably nothing to be gained there anyway.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Lol it’s not an onion article!
    How do you do this as a country and think anyone will respect anything you threaten again?

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    17 days ago

    Russian government is near collapse if this shit is true. What a fucking pathetic joke they all are over there.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    16 days ago

    They should start a payment plan. $5 per day.

    The current amount would be paid off by Saturday, April 11, 10951628027954030802047011389440

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      16 days ago

      So it’ll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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    16 days ago

    To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow.

    Seems a bit suspect.

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      16 days ago

      this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the “this person might be the world’s first trillionaire!!!” articles are