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Re:Google outage – resolved by rocho on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:45AM (#25416804)
That figure seems way too low, what are your sources on it?
Re:Google outage – resolved by ascar on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:55AM (#25416905)
Simple math says:

World GDP (via Google) $80,934,771,028,340

Minutes per year 365 * 24 * 60 = 525,600

Divide and you get 153,985,485

Re:Google outage – resolved by HPsquared on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:50AM (#25416853)
World GDP is $80 trillion per year.
Re:Google outage – resolved by rakoo on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:54AM (#25416902)
World GDP was ~$90B last year (https://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GDP.pdf), which averages to ~$150M/minute
Re:Google outage – resolved by vultour on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:57AM (#25416920)
That's trillion not billion
Re:Google outage – resolved by jrh206 on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:12AM (#25417073)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

A billion is a number with two distinct definitions:

- 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10^9, as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both British and American English.

- 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10^12, as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion. This is the historical meaning in English and the current use in many non-English-speaking countries where billion and trillion 10^18 maintain their long scale definitions.

Nevertheless almost everyone uses 1B = 10^9 for technical discussions

Re:Google outage – resolved by ikt on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:44AM (#25417398)
This is a financial discussion though so:

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

World's GDP is $80,934,771,028,340 (nominal, 2017).

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%2C934%2C771%2C02...

$80.93477102834 trillion

Nobody would argue world GDP is anything billion, that's crazy.

Re:Google outage – resolved by selectodude on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:16AM (#25419240)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_pays_par_PIB_nominal

In France, they use milliard and billion.

Re:Google outage – resolved by rakoo on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:03AM (#25418319)
Sorry, language mistake. The result is the same: GDP is ~$150M/minute
Re:Google outage – resolved by kerng on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:12PM (#25420033)
That depends where in the world you are!