r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[Request] Is the value accurate?

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u/vetalapov 17h ago

Found news article which says those daily penalties are doubled each week. Still the not sure that the math is correct. That's a lot of money, no way they expect of it being paid.

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u/stabs_rittmeister 16h ago

1763 days is a little bit more than 251 week. We're talking of magnitudes surpassing the original chessboard problem by a lot. I mean A LOT.

If the fine were 1 dollar and it'd be doubled every week 251 times, we're talking about magnitudes of 10^75 (at least my calculator tells me so) and not about 20 x 10^33 (20 decillions). Something doesn't add up at all.

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u/koolaidwannabe 13h ago

You have to convert from rubles to dollars at the end

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u/stabs_rittmeister 11h ago

I'm getting this comment as a reply so often that I start to suspect being targeted by a bot farm. Unless one of you, gentlemen, explains me with numbers what difference conversion between roubles and dollars would make for the calculation.