A cube, a quintillion dollars coin and the power of decimals

Last week stood out by some popular discussions about minting a particularly huge bullion coin to avoid a Debt Ceiling default of the United States of America’s Federal Government. More precisely, a one Trillion USD platinum bullion coin. While I’m not an expert on American right nor do I have any opinion about if such a project is wise or not, contrary to what some Twitter commenters suggested to my thread:…