You're completely right. To convince myself: trillion = 10**12 wikipedia = 10**8 surplus = trillion applied_surplus = surplus * 0.01 print applied_s

You're completely right. To convince myself: trillion = 10**12 wikipedia = 10**8 surplus = trillion applied_surplus = surplus * 0.01 print applied_surplus / wikipedia which leaves us with only 100 wikipedias, as your numbers claimed.