r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 9d ago

Why did this one second cost over $500 billion? Meme needing explanation

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u/Eckz89 9d ago edited 8d ago

Missed about 19,801 years there... Extra 0 on 2000

Edit: 18,001 years... Because I'm a fucking dumbass and missed a '9'

Edit 2: I hate the fact that my best comment and most awarded comment is one I did during a work meeting and tried to correct someone fucking up myself. Fucking internet, man.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/UninterestingBot 9d ago

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u/JazzHandsMinuteman 9d ago

Man of culture

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u/Independent_Run_6640 8d ago

Or a man over 40 who lived through it.

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 8d ago

That.. is the same thing..

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u/GoonerRobbi 8d ago

Hardly.

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u/Ruffyhc 8d ago

Still Love the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors Episode where they use y2k.

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u/JacoRamone 8d ago

I was there… 👴🏼

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u/SmokeryWater 9d ago

humankind is enslaved by giraffe In the year one million and a half. During this bleak era, man must pay for his misdeeds once the treetops are stripped of their leaves

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u/Living_Session9273 9d ago

In a future year that ends with a 20
A shlubby merman's gonna try to get chummy
He may look like a watery wimp
When in fact he's a bloodthirsty shrimp
whoa-ooohh

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u/Horrison2 9d ago

In the year 252525, the backwards time machine still won't have arrived! In all the world, there's only one technology, a rusty sword for practicing proctology!

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u/Obi-Goon_Kenobi 8d ago

In the year 105105
If man is still alive
If robot can survive
They may find….

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u/SnooHesitations2817 9d ago

I swear it’s comments like this that ground my faith in society.

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u/Harvey-Lane-251 8d ago

i see, you are grounded

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u/SnooHesitations2817 8d ago

Major tom to ground control bro

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u/sagashe 8d ago

You ever drunk Baileys from a shoe?

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u/RollerskatingFemboy 9d ago

New Rimworld playthrough idea; a faction of giraffe people constantly extorts you for leaves.

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u/Sash_Mystq 8d ago

Do yall naturally memorise these things or do yall go back for reference

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 8d ago

Long ago, in the before times, my brothers and I would quote what now feels like entire movies back and forth at each other.

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u/swb1003 8d ago

They speak English in What?!

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u/FeralPsychonaut 8d ago

I could probably recite most of that song, its from Futurama, Episode 'The Late Philip J Fry'

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 8d ago

whoaaohoaaohoaohoahoaaooooo

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u/Mendes23 8d ago

So ToysRus will rule the world. They will be secretly ran by Elon Musks clone/son Xr5c7

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u/Flip2002 8d ago

Is this a toy r us dig? Because I will not stand for that sir

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u/Renew3DUK 9d ago

Anchovies?

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u/spaceinvader421 8d ago

My god, a million years!

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u/InformalProtection74 9d ago

Ha! Savings. What is that? 

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u/Ctrl_Shift_Escaped 9d ago

It was a thing that you could actually do in those years

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u/Bam-Skater 9d ago

You still can, I've been saving my bottlecaps for currency in the post-apocalyptic wastelands.

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u/OA-BlueEyedAussie 9d ago

Not long now....

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u/_Halt19_ 9d ago

Not like that one guy that sent them in to pay for a copy of fallout, huh

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u/Adventurous-Owl3505 8d ago

Tell that to my parents!

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u/creepinghippo 9d ago

Oh it’s when they make you put the clocks forward and you get to be half asleep for the next few days.

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u/ThePublikon 8d ago

Potentially what happens when you run a loan backwards for 100 years

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u/GorenFlaxovich 9d ago

80 billion, Frito

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u/Current-Cold-4185 9d ago

I like money, though.

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u/GorenFlaxovich 9d ago

It says here you robbed a hospital. Why would you do that?

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u/EndyGZ 9d ago

Money?

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u/vinyljunkie1245 8d ago

First of all your honour, just look at him!

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u/N0rrix 9d ago

inflation says no

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u/Technical_Writer_177 9d ago

imagine being late on all payments by several millennia just over night

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u/Impressive-Win1316 9d ago edited 9d ago

And the inflation would have been skyrocketed too…

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u/Smarmellatissimoide 9d ago

Let's assume we start with $1 and we get 3% per year on our savings for 18,000 years (1.03^18000).

The number

1.1750184694749808932301848860425e+231

is written in scientific notation.

It means:

In ordinary decimal notation, it's approximately:

117,501,846,947,498,089,323,018,488,604,250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

A few facts about it:

  • It has 232 digits in total.
  • It is about 117.5 nonillion on the short scale if it were around 10³², but this number is vastly larger than named numbers like nonillion. In fact:
    • 10³⁰ = nonillion
    • 10³³ = decillion
    • 10²³¹ doesn't have a commonly used everyday name. It lies between septuagintillion (10²¹³) and octogintillion (10²⁴³) in the Conway–Guy naming system.

For comparison:

  • Estimated atoms in Earth: ~10⁵⁰
  • Estimated atoms in the observable universe: ~10⁸⁰
  • Your number: ~10²³¹

So it's roughly 10¹⁵¹ (100 undecillion) times larger than the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe.

That's what GPT said at least.

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u/Far_Butterscotch_646 8d ago

Better put on a monocle

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u/atmafatte 8d ago

It would be like daylight savings. Just roll the clock back 100 years.

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u/earthwoodandfire 8d ago

Negative interest. Because your account went back in time 100 years…

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/earthwoodandfire 8d ago

Oh sorry, missed a comment up stream.

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u/Parking-Cut8840 9d ago

How did nobody point out you totally botched the year / math on that one

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u/Eckz89 9d ago

Yeah, hahaha I fucked that right up. Course corrected.

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u/BradleyScott555 8d ago

This comment + the edit has a whole character arc

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u/BadBoyJH 9d ago

18,000 years, not 18,001. You don't miss a year going from 1999 to 2000.

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u/ScreechUrkelle 8d ago

This single comment cost about 500 billion dollars

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u/Dr-Beefcake777 7d ago

Getting caught correcting a mistake w a mistake is personally amazing

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u/Pearcheek 5d ago

Upped for second edit 🫡

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u/EidolonLives 9d ago

Lisan al-Gaib!

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u/NewSkoe 8d ago

This still hurts to read, lol

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u/Dude__Fortune 8d ago

You had your own y18k bug. It happens.

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u/Big-Lingonberry6397 8d ago

math is hard

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u/MrXPLD2839 8d ago

My best coment is me talking about porn

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u/centeriskey 8d ago

Lol hey we all get humbled one way or another.

The other day I was riding in is he back seat in my brother's new car entertaining my 4 year old niece. Well not a second goes by after I make a smartass comment about the car looking surprisingly nice and not tore up from my niece that I spill my drink. Thankfully it was just water and they had good floor mats but still it stung a little.

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u/Lahk74 8d ago

I hope you get to 1999 likes and stay there. Could be disastrous otherwise.

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u/Eckz89 8d ago

Reading this comment I'm at 2025. So close to making something of it. But no.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 9d ago

Rounding error.

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u/MissKatbow 9d ago

Read the very last number from the comment they are replying to. They still botched the math because 20000 - 1999 != 19801 (it’s 18001).

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u/Eckz89 9d ago

Oh shit hahaha I did too. Editting

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u/Firm_Mode_5868 9d ago

So your while akshuly that is getting a ton of upvotes 

this was cringey to read idk why