There's a counter of the US national debt in Times square - which stood around 8 years ago at $5 Trillion.
Now it's reached $10 T,and they've had to hack a '$' sign onto the front of the number - they'd run out of room on the actual display for it. On the bright side, it's now good for $99,999,999,999 - though they'd have to move the new $ sign left a bit to see all of the first number.
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:35 pm (UTC)Now it's reached $10 T,and they've had to hack a '$' sign onto the front of the number - they'd run out of room on the actual display for it. On the bright side, it's now good for $99,999,999,999 - though they'd have to move the new $ sign left a bit to see all of the first number.