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When someone gets a big , we say they earn " numbers". A man in New York is suing the city (and others) for so much it is impossible to think of a . Anton Purisima, 62, is suing for two undecillion. Most English would not know or have heard of the word for this . It is two undecillion – a two followed by 36 . The only people who might use this word are astrophysicists and . Two undecillion dollars is, in , more than all the money in the world. Even more than all the created throughout our entire history.

So what did New York City do so to be sued for such an amazingly sum? Mr Purisima is suing the city (and hospitals, LaGuardia Airport, the transportation , a bakery and a dog owner) for "civil-rights violations, personal , discrimination, retaliation, harassment, fraud, attempted , intentional infliction of emotional , and conspiracy to defraud". All because a "rabies-infected" dog bit his on a city bus; then, a "Chinese couple" took of him without asking; and he is overcharged for at LaGuardia Airport.

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