Man sues Bank of America for "1,784 billion trillion dollars"
It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent [to a] 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," said Sylvain Cappell, New York University's Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. "If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."
Chiscolm is probably an Italian astronomer and forgot to convert back from lira to US dollars.
ReplyDelete1E21 lira = $5260.83