Comment on xkcd 2861: X Value

randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The specific number 4.1083 does not have any notable significance or special role in the contexts of physics, chemistry, finance, astronomy or cryptography.[citation needed] 4.1083 (or at least 4.108) has been referenced previously in comic 899: Number Line.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gonna go with the last one in the discussion part

  TWTR earlier this month had a market cap of $41.09bn

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Market cap? It’s a private company, it doesn’t have a market cap.

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  • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Curious, according to whom? Outside of just unsourced reports of its market cap, the estimates on its valuation are less than half that number.

    I really cannot find a news source.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hmm you’re right, honestly I just googled and saw the same exact number with a decimal point shifted, so I put two and two together

      As for whether that number is actually a valid valuation, I’ve not got the information to say

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