Could it be that these squares are indeed like the rumors say, that even if one were to put all of Yiyeta Harbor's wealth into them, it would still not fill them up?
Kevin scoffed at the idea; such rumors were absolutely absurd!
"Do you know how many copper coins it would take to fill the last square of these seven rows and columns?" Philip asked, somewhat helplessly. "It's two hundred eighty-one trillion!"
"Two hundred eighty-one trillion copper coins, that is quite a lot..." Kevin was somewhat surprised, but after a pause, suddenly realized that the unit Philip mentioned seemed to be...trillion?
"Wait, are you sure you're not mistaken?" Kevin was completely befuddled.
It was the first time he had ever heard of the unit trillion.
"Of course not! I've already verified it myself..." Philip said irritably. He had also been surprised when he first heard it from the apprentices, and it took him nine whole sheets of draft paper to calculate because the numbers were just too long.
