John Carlos Baez on Nostr: This is pretty hilarious. You may have heard the legend where the inventor of chess ...
This is pretty hilarious. You may have heard the legend where the inventor of chess asks the king to put 1 wheat grain on the first square of the board, 2 on the second, 4 on the third and so on. Now it's happening in real life!
Earlier this year, a Russian court ordered Google to restore Russian state media accounts on YouTube. They imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles, doubling each week. As of now, Google has been fined 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles. That's 2 × 10³⁶ rubles, or 2 undecillion rubles.
Luckily this equivalent to a mere 2 × 10³⁴ dollars. And since the volume of the observable universe is roughly 10⁷⁸ cubic meters, there's plenty of room for Google to be obnoxious and pay this off in pennies.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-state-tv-channels-demand-2-undecillion-rubles-from-google-3351
Earlier this year, a Russian court ordered Google to restore Russian state media accounts on YouTube. They imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles, doubling each week. As of now, Google has been fined 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles. That's 2 × 10³⁶ rubles, or 2 undecillion rubles.
Luckily this equivalent to a mere 2 × 10³⁴ dollars. And since the volume of the observable universe is roughly 10⁷⁸ cubic meters, there's plenty of room for Google to be obnoxious and pay this off in pennies.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-state-tv-channels-demand-2-undecillion-rubles-from-google-3351