Would Scrooge exchange his money??

Halsten Aastebol Halsten.Aastebol at elkraft.ntnu.no
Tue Feb 4 11:03:37 CET 2003


At 00:18 04.02.2003 -0800, lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:
>  On page 6, panel 5, there is a stack of
>            about 32 bales.  The 2 bales in the foreground of panel 3 on 
> page 6
>            are each labeled $9,000,000,000,000,000.  If all 32 bales have 
> this
>            same amount, he has $288,000,000,000,000,000 in his bin.

No, no, no.. this must only be his pocket money!
I mean: $288,000,000,000,000,000! There's even a name for this number. At 
least here in Norway. It would be called 288 billiarder (billiard = 10 to 
the power of 15). And above that we have trillion (10 to the power of 18) 
and then the last: trilliard (10 to the power of 21). Maybe not really 
official, but at least that is the popular meaning of those figures.

The confusing one in this is "billion" which in Norwegian means 10 to the 
power of 12!
The English billion, 10 to the power of 9, is milliard in Norwegian.

But my point is: Scrooge's fortune must be way above any nameable figure.
It's $ 17 umptillion 2 fantasticatillion 8 impossibillium 306 billion and 
do not forget the 16 cents.
Isn't the number given by Donald as 500 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
000 ..some number of zeros...000 and 16 cents in "The Menehune Mystery"?

Regards
Halsten




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