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  • Girl Named ZERO@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    I’m pretty sure it was actually like trillions or quadrillions, it was some number that was so large that it was not even possible to pay out if they wanted to

    • DreadFlintstone@quokk.auEnglish
      29·
      8 days ago

      You were… close?

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

      A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes - for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

      From a CNN article:

      The virtually unpronounceable penalty amounts to $20 decillion — or around $20 billion trillion trillion. That dwarfs the size of the global economy.