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    "Small" phone bill

    Telstra eat your heart out

    A Frenchwoman who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6,000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived - after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.

    Solenne San Jose, from Pessac in the Bordeaux region of south-western France, could not believe her eyes when she opened the bill to discover she was being asked to pay 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros ($A14,676,614,570,049,452) to close her account.

    Ms San Jose's alarm increased when operators at Bouygues Telecom told her they could not amend the computer-generated statement or stop the balance from being debited from her bank account.

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    Hi Arthur, looks more like one of the new water bills being sent out here in Hobart

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    Yes, I paid $250.00 per quarter but then again rates plus water is about the same sum as in Queensland.
    What I do not like about is that in strata plan in a group of many units there is only one common meter
    That means that a single person in one unit paid the same amount for the water that another unit with a family of 5
    Southern Water should supply and install at their cost one meter per unit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chucaro View Post
    11,721,000,000,000,000 euros .
    I don't even know what a number with that many 000's is called... Anyone know???
    If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bacicat2000 View Post
    I don't even know what a number with that many 000's is called... Anyone know???
    Quadrillion.

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    In a scale 1 quadrillion pennies will be something like this:


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