Imagine you win £1 million on the lottery (that's a 1 and six zeros, or 1,000 x 1,000). That is a huge amount of money. Would probably set you up for life, correct? Nice home in the country, a Range Rover for you, a BMW Mini for your wife, maybe a small yacht, and plenty left over to enjoy life to the full.
OK. Multiply that by 2.5. You win £2.5 million. Now we're talking. Add a town house in Brighton, a Maserati Quattroporte and stretch that yacht to a 40 footer.
I can dream....
Let's add another zero - now we are up to £25 million. Can you imagine such a sum in your wildest dreams? Become a philanthropist perhaps and donate monies to hundreds if not thousands of charities. Could you ever spend £25 million in your lifetime?
How about £250 million? This sum is already becoming beyond most people's comprehension. An income of £3.57 million per year for 70 years is one way of looking at it. Or, if you can comprehend, this is one quarter of a billion on the short scale.
OK. Now considering your incomprehensible windfall of £250 million pounds, multiply that by 10. Get it? 10 lots of £250 million. Probably enough to buy a small country or 28,000 Maseratis (I only want one, thank you) or how about 10 A380Airbuses, a snip at just £250 million apiece.
£2.5 billion. It's difficult to get your head around, isn't it? Well, I reckon the Co-op Group are finding it difficult to reconcile just how you lose 10 x A380 Airbuses in just one year of trading....
It certainly beats me.
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