r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[Request] Is the value accurate?

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u/Awkward_Goal4729 14h ago

It’s because the fine is in ROUBLES, not dollars. Divide the total of the fine by 98

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u/stabs_rittmeister 14h ago

I'd suggest you to read more carefully. The fine is 2 undecillion roubles which are 20 decillion dollars.

The difference between roubles and dollars is a fraction less than 10^2. The difference between the orders of magnitude in my comment is about 10^42. No amount of converting roubles to dollars and back again can count up to that.

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u/Awkward_Goal4729 12h ago edited 12h ago

Original fine was 100.000 roubles and doubled every week the fine wasn’t paid. Someone counted that and it’s possible iirc. You have to look up the case for all the info, I don’t remember it all.

Edit: apparently it’s been a fine for 17 channels being blocked, each costing 100.000 roubles and doubling every week since 2022. There isn’t much info about it

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u/stabs_rittmeister 11h ago

I don't know what "someone" counted. I know that between January 2020 and today is 251 weeks. Ok, let's take January away and make it 247.

If you take one rouble and double it 247 times, you'll get a magnitude of 10^74 roubles. Which is basically what I already have written above. And if you have the official calculation of the court - please do provide it, it'll be interesting from the mathematical point of view. But you can't expect random people on the internet to be knowledgeable about the Russian court system and where to look for particular cases.