I must be missing something. The situation described is not a fold. When talking about folding, you're really talking about doubling. For $1 in gold to incre

I must be missing something. The situation described is not a fold. When talking about folding, you're really talking about doubling. For $1 in gold to increase 87-fold, it would have a value of approximately 7.7 times 10 to the 25th power. I'm pretty sure that was not the intent. What's really being said is that $1 in gold has gone up 8700%. Compared to the same dollar going up 17,400% in stocks.