Apple is now richer than America

[Greatjusticeman]

Apple doesn't have a debt worth about 14 some trillion.

Apple doesn't have to fund a bunch of wars and a country.

Nice.

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

Apple could pay off almost 1% of the national US debt. Awesome

 

[gyroscopeboy]

Your teacher may have been wrong or right at the time, depending on when the change was, though the source says it's different now, so I can't be wrong here, though your teacher can be depending on when he taught you. It's not right for you to use mathematics that have since been changed =]

Aha! Hence my use of "was" rather than "is" >_>.

Unless he is being quoted from before 1974, when Britain stopped using long scale, then he is wrong