If you're in the UK, the international version of your phone number starts +44... then 10 digits (your number's usually 11 digits, but you drop the first 0 for the international version).
Now imagine this: Elon Musk has $500,000,000,000
Write down your number (in international format) but instead of a + sign at the front, use a $ sign.
It'll look like $447,000,000,000. Kinda.
Point is, Elon's got about $50,000,000,000 more than that.
He could literally give you your phone number in cash, and still have at least 50 billion left.
Yup.
Another way to think of it: forget the international format.
Take your normal mobile number and flip the first 0 for a $ sign.
That’ll look something like $7000 000 000
Or, written properly, $7,000,000,000.
Just seven billion.
Elon could gift you that, and it wouldn’t even make a dent. He’d still be sitting on $493 billion.
Wild.
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