Arithmetic lessons

In February 2007, a message appeared on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office that Plato Lebedev entered into a contract with certain companies worth 63 trillion dollars. Platon Lebedev thought, thought and sued, about the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. As the lawyer Lebedeva Vladimir Krasnov commented on the lawsuit of his client: “This agreement is equal to the budget of all the states of the world in 2006.”
63 trillion dollars is not the first time when the department, seemingly obligated to know arithmetic, gives out the fantastic numbers at all.
In 2002, the prosecutor's office started a criminal case against Boris Berezovsky. He was accused of the fact that in 1994-1995, under his leadership from AvtoVAZ, 2333 cars were stolen in the amount of 60 billion of non-minimized rubles. In March 2003, Berezovsky and Dubov were detained in London and released on bail of 100 thousand pounds each. The next day after the detention of the Deputy Prosecutor General, Kolesnikov gave a press conference at which he announced that the amount under which Berezovsky and Dubov were released on bail is approximately equivalent to the amount of the stolen in Russia.
According to Kolesnikov’s calculations, it turned out that the brand new “Lada” cost 100 pounds.
At the same press conference, Vladimir Kolesnikov, commenting on the story with the illegal receipt of quotas for catching fish and delicious seafood, outlined his ideas about the fishing economy:
“I can hardly imagine what quotas are,” said the deputy prospector. - But I know that the average fishing trawler caught production for 10 thousand dollars for a year. Let us sell him a license for 8 thousand dollars, and we will leave the rest for a salary. And the army of overseers will simply not be needed. ”
It’s even difficult to imagine what exactly Kolesnikov had. If, for example, take a cod, then the average fishing trawler caught from 5 to 10 tons of cod per day; For a year can catch up to 3 thousand tons. 5-10 thousand dollars-this is as much as trawler spends per day, catching fish. And already 2 thousand dollars, which the Deputy Prosecutor Grand Prosecutor Grandian Prosecutor Oblijoisly offers twenty to thirty crew members to divide each other for twelve months-we will leave this without comment.

Another press conference of Kolesnikov, held in November 2003, turned out to be no less wonderful. On it, he spoke about the Khodorkovsky case.

“They say Khodorkovsky did not kill,” said Mr. Kolesnikov. - Yes, he did not kill. With a club, I did not go out on a big way. All this is really. However, in this case, there should be a different logic in the assessment of the situation; First of all, it is worth seeing how the majority of the Russian population lives in conditions when a small part has superpituals. Minimum wages - 600 rubles. The minimum pension is 1600. And now give this billion (this refers to a billion dollars, the theft of which is charged with Khodorkovsky) will transfer to our rubles. As a result of the fact that the Russians did not receive this billion, in only one month only 18 million 437 thousand 500 people could not completely get their salaries and pensions - 49 million 166 thousand 666 people. ”

The accuracy of Kolesnikov’s calculations shocked: not 49 million 166 thousand 665, namely 49 million 166 thousand 666 people! True, as in the case of trawler, on which they were based, it remains not entirely clear.

More recently, speaking at a press conference on the capture of Yuri Gaidukov, one of the inspectors of the Accounts Chamber (Gaidukov, they took 7 million euros from the NPO Energomash), the head of the Accounts Chamber, Sergei Stepashin, said that Gaidukov was framed to “disrupt the audit”, which revealed damage to “hundreds of billions of dollars”.

The check is secret. However, it is known that NPO Energomash supplies the RD-180 engine in the United States for the Atlas missile for 10 million dollars. He supplies twice as powerful for the Zenit missile to Dnepropetrovsk for $ 7.5 million. Imagine: Energomash put 36 engines in the United States and stole all the money to the cent, having eaten 10 million dollars from each engine somewhere else in offshore. "Hundreds of billions"-where is it from?

I admit, by education, a philologist. Because of this, I seem to not be obliged to remember which article and what “size” is “especially heavy”. I am not obliged to know that trawler can not get 10 thousand dollars per season, that an enterprise that sold 36 engines of $ 10 million each can not steal “hundreds of billions of dollars” on this and that the leaders of the Yukos could not wash 63 trillion. dollars.

But for some reason I (and, I dare to hope, many) pay attention to this. And the prosecutor’s office, the FSB, the Accounts Chamber - that is, those people who are obliged to observe the cleanliness of the numbers who are obliged to calculate each penny, to protect it with a steel cage of logic and facts, allow themselves to talk about $ 10 thousand earned by a trawler and 63 trillion, stolen by Lebedev.

Why?

And suddenly, just as a philologist, I understand that I know another type of texts where such a treatment with numbers is constantly found. These are sacred, esoteric or scholastic texts.

Why the number of the beast is 666? Why Indian gods according to one sources 3306, and on others - 3339? How many years did the golden age last, how many angels are placed on the tip of the needle and how to enter the orbits of the planets of the solar system into the correct multi -graders? There is a specific kind of texts that answer all these questions, with the accuracy of the extraordinary and must impress dungeed neophyte.

So with our prosecutor's office also. It is not in it that accountants work, but all the ways. 63 trillion dollars! 49 million 166 thousand 666 pensioners!

Inspires.