Show HN: How much is 13B euros?

Hi,

I made this page to contextualize 13 billion euros (or 14): an amount due to Ireland in an EU Apple tax case and all over the airwaves here this week. I use some pretty silly back-of-the-envelope type calculations (the same ones also repeated a lot in Ireland this week!).

These calculations aren't especially interesting, but at least they are present: you can see them, and you can change them. If you do - change the 13 billion to 14 billion for example, related numbers will flash with updates.

It's an example using calculang[1]: a language for calculations, and an example that focuses on a close connection between numbers that we read or share and formulas/workings behind those numbers.

I plan to do a separate Show HN about calculang perhaps when I have more docs and newer playground and gallery together, but Showing this page in case it's interesting, & happy if there is feedback!

Declan

[0] https://HowMuchIs13BillionEuros.com repo: https://github.com/declann/HowMuchIs13BillionEuros.com

[1] https://calculang.dev

Show HN: How much is 13B euros?
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This shows values per person in Ireland, but AFAIK the tax is from all European income, Apple has just channelled that through Irish subsidiary.

Isle of Man is probably even richer in per capita money they've never seen.

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This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their profit.