Russian warship carrying £100 Billion of gold found off S. Korea

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/990585/Dmitrii-Donskoi-Russian-warship-South-Korea-gold

 

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Why would you put 100 billion in gold on a warship and then take that ship into battle?

 

Cajones.

 

RAC! (riendo a carcajadas)

 

I'm pretty sure there's never been a flotilla that would require 100 billion pounds for pay, port expenses, and so on.

I suspect the original statement was 100 million, not billion, never mind British billion (US trillion). Filtered through the Express's editors, though, I'm surprised it wasn't reported as 100 billion tons of gold.

 

Ooh, good old media accuracy commentary! Gotta love it.

 

Well, the Express certainly fits the old "neither rare nor well done" characterization...

 

realize that it was worth far less back then

 

Figure: $100,000,000,000 / $average of $1300 an ounce =
76,923 ounces
time #+$21, value of one ounce in 1905= $1,615,384.61

 

One of my pet peeves is media reporting temperatures in unit-less degrees.

For example, I heard reports that global surface temperature is expected to rise 1.7 degrees in the 21st century. Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin units?

Yes Virginia, it makes a difference.

 

It says 100 billion English pounds of gold.
So you need different calculations as the pound is worth $1.30
So that would be 130,000,000,000 in US dollars, divided by 1300 ounce
that's 100 million ounces x 21 an ounce is 2.1 billion.

Your number of 79,000 is way off.
79,923 x 1300= 103,899,900. That's only 104 million.

1300 is roughly 65x more than 21 ( 20 an ounce)
And 2 billion is roughly 65x less than 130 billion.

 

I also think Treashunt misplaced some zeroes.

 

What does that mean

 

Yeah. That ship would sit pretty low in the water. Not to believable

 

Russian foke news

 

If it weighed a hundred billion pounds the ship would sink.

 

Not weight, pounds sterling. Money.

 

yeah maybe it was 100 billion stones worth of sterling pound gold ounces.

 

the ol' avoirdupois vs troy thing ya know