> So what would the newly minted quadrillionaire have done with the cash? "I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said. Good citizen, thinks ab

> So what would the newly minted quadrillionaire have done with the cash? "I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said. Good citizen, thinks about his country first. As a matter of fact, he would own 11000 times more money than there are US dollars in existence [1]. I also wonder where this specific number came from. It doesn't look like anything familiar (like INT_MAX). [1] http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-worl...