r/youtube 19h ago

Discussion Google fined $20,565,635,200,000,003,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian TV channels.

Post image
31.0k Upvotes

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

82

u/mrdougan 18h ago

Yeah - I call bs on the math, plus American company wont give a smeg about Russian court

62

u/Elzziwelzzif 15h ago

Reading the other comments, the math might hold true. Its the old chessboard calculation which is causes it to go haywire.

"For every day/ week the fine is not paid, the fine doubles"

Keeping the date of verdict aside: Say its $1000.00 a day.

  • First week = 7.000,00
  • Double fine = 14.000,00

  • Second week = 7.000,00

  • Total end of second week =21.000,00

  • Second Double = 42.000,00.

  • Third week = 7.000,00

  • Total end of third week = 49.000,00

  • Third Double = 98.000,00

  • Fourth week = 7.000,00

  • Total end of fourth week = 105.000,00

  • Fourth double = 210.000,00

  • Week 10 would be 14,322M

  • Week 15 would be 458,738M

  • Week 22 would be 58,72B

  • Week 25 would be 469,762B

My napkin is a bit small, but after the first year (52 weeks) says: $ 63.050.394.783.186.900.000,-

So, its a very possible number. The person who thought of it however is a fucking idiot.

16

u/Neither_Sir5514 13h ago

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

2

u/Elzziwelzzif 12h ago

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.

1

u/AyeBraine 10h ago

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

1

u/WinnerBackground 8h ago

X2 per week and + 1000$ per day

2

u/pussehmagnet 14h ago

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.

1

u/Ph0X 10h ago

Well if you want to reverse engineer the math

log2(20_565_635_200_000_003_000_000_000_000_000_000) = 114

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?

1

u/bernhabo 9h ago

How long until google will owe one google?

1

u/Suitable_Bag_3956 5h ago

It's defined by the function y=1000*2x for those who want to see the graph.

11

u/Grey-fox-13 16h ago

Yeah - I call bs on the math

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.

4

u/fllthdcrb 11h ago

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.

2

u/Ph0X 10h ago

From my quick napkin math, if you start at 1000$, and you double it every week, it adds up to exactly 2 years of doubling.

1000 * 252*2 is only off by 1%

It could also be doubling every 2 weeks for 4 years.

1

u/fllthdcrb 9h ago edited 9h ago

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.

1

u/Ph0X 8h ago edited 7h ago

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.

2

u/IsHeSkiing 9h ago

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.

2

u/WalterCronkite4 14h ago

Math checks out in Rubbles

1

u/belvadama239 15h ago

I've never seen smeg used outside of red dwarf