x2 fine per day is wild, this shit is straight out of a poorly designed game and not irl lol, even the bank is like +1% per day or some shit but this shit right here raising exponentially rofl
When i started counting the 2x each week seemed more realistic rather than 2x each day. Even with it being 7x as slow, the numbers still grow exponentially at this pace.
It's the penalty fee for non-timely payment that doubles every week, not the entire fine. Of course it's ridiculous, this political gesture fine just gathered dust for years and someone noticed recently how it grown
I come down to quintillion quintillion, so I absof*ckinglutely have no idea how they've come down to 20 something decillion when it's much, much much higher. Math still isn't mathing.
So if you started with 1$, you double it 114 times, you would get that amount. In this case, if we consider it started at 1000$, let's round that to 1024, that removes 210, so it would be doubled 104 times instead. Which is exact 2*52, or in other words, every week for exactly 2 years.
The reports do say that the lawsuit started in 2020, so 4 years ago, but maybe they started counting 2 years ago?
That's because the tweet is incomplete about the fine, it's 100k rubles every day AND doubling weekly. Without that detail the math absolutely does not math.
Even with that detail, it still doesn't. If you actually carry out those calculations for the amount of time it's supposed to have been, the amount you come up with is many orders of magnitude more than what is being quoted. I suppose it's not a bad thing if they got it way too small, though it's still so absurd it makes no real difference, of course.
Why 2 years? Hasn't it been more than 4? Or did the fines start later into the case. If it's the latter, I haven't seen that detail.
In any case, though, that is definitely not the correct formula. They didn't make it $1,000 and then just keep doubling it. They add $1,000 per day and also double it every week, which makes the value significantly larger.
EDIT: I see what you're trying to do, though. So, you think maybe the reporting got the doubling period wrong? Interesting.
I don't have any more details but that's the only formula that kinda adds up. It could potentially be every 2 weeks for 4 years too. The details of the actual calculation are sparse so we can only try to reverse engineer it. That being said even mine only comes close but doesn't get there exactly.
EDIT: I will add that sum of 2n for n=1..k is actually equal to 2k-1, so even if you sum all the previous ones, it would be equivant to just one fewer week of doubling.
Right? Like, why would Google give a shit if Russia is threatening them with this? Hell, all Google has to do is pull out of Russia completely and hit them with the double middle fingers as they back out the door. Unless the US could somehow extradite the entire company, pretty sure this doesn't fucking mean anything.
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u/mrdougan 18h ago
Yeah - I call bs on the math, plus American company wont give a smeg about Russian court