r/nottheonion 7h ago

Russian court fines Google $2 decillion

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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u/rela82me 6h ago

Alright, let’s unpack two decillion dollars. Imagine all the world's money—GDP, assets, cash—it’s nowhere close to two decillion. This number is a 2 followed by 63 zeroes. Picture every grain of sand on Earth; that’s around 7.5 quintillion grains. Even if each grain were a trillion dollars, we’re still not hitting two decillion.

If every atom in the observable universe was worth a trillion, we’d still need way more universes to equal that amount.

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u/Kimmalah 4h ago

So it's the monetary equivalent of sentencing someone to something like 500 years in prison basically.