$92 Quadrillion Account Balance

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/tech/p...?hpt=us_c2

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.

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

Yah sure. I understand patriotism but the country could have paid that debt itself if it didn't invest so much in other not so important things like militar technology.

Anyway I think they should have given him the choice of some money for himself or a bit more to a charity cause.

His reaction is cute.

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

Yah sure. I understand patriotism but the country could have paid that debt itself if it didn't invest so much in other not so important things like militar technology.

Anyway I think they should have given him the choice of some money for himself or a bit more to a charity cause.

Don't

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

And he would have simultaneously caused the market to crash by introducing such a ridiculous amount of money.

Essentially this

The interesting mistake in this article is that it's actually a negative number. According to that statement he OWES $92 Quadrillion.

The interesting mistake in this article is that it's actually a negative number. According to that statement he OWES $92 Quadrillion.

That's what I saw, but I thought I just didn't understand something.

That's what I saw, but I thought I just didn't understand something.

So in a regular US bank, a negative value would be displayed in parenthesis. So for example, if you owed $10 in a regular US bank it would be shown as ($10.00). However, PayPal will just give you a -$10.00. Sadly, I know this from experience.

I would have gone on a Cubing spree the likes of which no one had ever seen.

I would have cubed crap equipment just so I could cube them.

I would have gone on a Cubing spree the likes of which no one had ever seen.

I would have cubed crap equipment just so I could cube them.

And then you would have immediately either paid that money back or gone to jail.

And then you would have immediately either paid that money back or gone to jail.

I probably could have paid them back in Legendary Empress equipment.