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Russia fines Google more than the world’s total GDP over YouTube bans (www.euronews.com)

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Russia fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - that’s 2.5 trillion trillion trillion dollars after the US tech giant took action against Putin's propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is that not 20 decillion? Why say ‘trillion x3?’

Edit: sorry, it says so in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Even weirder, the article says this:

To put that into perspective, global GDP reaches an estimated $110 thousand billion (12-digit figure), according to the IMF.

Decillion might not be a word people know, but surely trillion is?