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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    20 hours ago

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

    Edit: sorry, it says so in the article.

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      15 hours 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?