She’s a whopping 100,000 times better off than Elon Musk
Sophie Downing is a quadrillionaire according to her 200 Degrees receipt(Image: Nottingham Post/ Joel Moore)
A Nottingham business owner has become the richest person in the history of the world – but the catch is she can only spend it on coffee and croissants.
Sophie Downing was given what she thought was a voucher worth £10 for 200 Degrees Coffee for Christmas.
However, when using it to buy a matcha latte last week she discovered the balance was slightly higher – more than £63 quadrillion.
That’s 63 with 15 zeros. Or a thousand trillion. Or a million billion.
While not liquid cash, it makes the matcha magnate a whopping 100,000 times richer than her closest competitor, centibillionaire Elon Musk.
The balance is also 670 times the total of the world economy.
“I thought it was really funny. I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said Ms Downing.
The 29-year-old first used the gift card at the 200 Degrees coffee shop in Flying Horse Walk during her lunch break on Thursday, February 12.
“The guy at the till was really confused. His face was just like ‘what?” she recalled.
“This massive number came up on the till. He said ‘I’ve never seen it before but it’s fine for you to keep it’.
The balance is 670 times the total of the world economy(Image: Nottingham Post/ Joel Moore)
“I didn’t clock it until he gave me the receipt. I thought ‘surely not, that’s actually crazy’.”
Ms Downing, who runs the Secret Sugar Club, a hair removal service, used the gift card for a second time on Tuesday, February 17, and saw the balance still in its tens of quadrillions.
200 Degrees has yet to acknowledge the mistake to either Ms Downing or Nottinghamshire Live, but she has no plans to use the card again.
“Maybe they have scanned the wrong thing. It looks as though they have scanned the barcode which has turned into the balance,” she said.
“I could go in and clear everything off the shelf but I don’t want to take the mick.
“It would be better if it was a different gift card.”