I am sure almost all of us do not know how much is a quadrillion. There are 15 figures after the first figure of 1. As a comparison to bring us back to reality, there are only 6 figures after the first figure 1, to make a million; 9 figures to make a billion; and 12 figures to make a trillion. I suppose 92 quadrillion means 92,000 trillions! Isn't that thrilling just to calculate and fantasize?
But with such an unusually huge amount credited to your bank account, there is no way you can hide it, let alone use any of it.
Thanks to PayPal, someone just had the momentary thrill of having 92 quadrillion in his bank account...
"Chris Reynolds' PayPal account was erroneously credited $92,233,720,368,547,800."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Pennsylvania man gets a PayPal statement saying his account contains $92,233,720,368,547,800
Man, Chris Reynolds, later logs online to find his balance is actually $0
PayPal admits the error and offers to make donation to charity
Reynolds says he would have paid down the national debt
New York (CNN) -- When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
Money that would make Reynolds -- who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.
Rich, as in more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim. And he's worth $67 billion.
Oh, if only.
"It's a curious thing. I don't know, maybe someone was having fun," Reynolds said.
So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.
PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.
"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.
Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
So what would the would-be quadrillionaire have done with all that cash?
"I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said.
CNN's Erinn Cawthon and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report.
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But with such an unusually huge amount credited to your bank account, there is no way you can hide it, let alone use any of it.
Thanks to PayPal, someone just had the momentary thrill of having 92 quadrillion in his bank account...
"Chris Reynolds' PayPal account was erroneously credited $92,233,720,368,547,800."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Pennsylvania man gets a PayPal statement saying his account contains $92,233,720,368,547,800
Man, Chris Reynolds, later logs online to find his balance is actually $0
PayPal admits the error and offers to make donation to charity
Reynolds says he would have paid down the national debt
New York (CNN) -- When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
Money that would make Reynolds -- who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.
Rich, as in more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim. And he's worth $67 billion.
Oh, if only.
"It's a curious thing. I don't know, maybe someone was having fun," Reynolds said.
So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.
PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.
"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.
Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.
So what would the would-be quadrillionaire have done with all that cash?
"I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said.
CNN's Erinn Cawthon and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report.
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