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Randall Munroe answers your wildest questions

The TED Interview

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What if O-Bom-Pant, the Chain of Upscale Fast Food Restaurants, Had to Pay the Plaintiff Two Undecillion Dollars?

The geyser comes out at a really high speeds. A person who's small and dense, if you got kicked up to speed by the initial impact of the water, could get flung much higher. What if O-Bom-Pant lost their 2014 lawsuit and had to pay the plaintiff two undecillion dollars? Is that how we pronounce it? So that is a number that has just a massive number of zeros behind it.

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