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xkcd 2861: X Value (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

According to their ass, private companies don't have a market cap, they're not on the market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But if you search for Twitter market cap as of today it’s that number. Super weird. Maybe it’s just bots scraping each others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The best you'll get is evaluations of how much the company might be able to sell for or could open at on the stock market but that's based on thin air and many companies enter the market being evaluated at X$ only to crash in the next few days to their real value (see Robinhood).