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Um...I believe your math is way off.

Hm, could be.

2,100,000,000  : 2.1 Bn
  316,100,000  : 316.1 Mil
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2,100,0ØØ,ØØØ  : Zero Canceling
  316,1ØØ,ØØØ  : Zero Canceling
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21,000         : Post-Canceling
 3,161         : Post-Canceling
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         5+1+ noninteger-remainder
     ________
3161 | 21000
      -15805
       -----
        5195
       -3161
        ----
        2034

2034 / 3161 is approx. 2/3 (OR .666)
So the 6.6 is correct...

Ah, I got it -- I left the M marker on my notes -- (stupid order-of-magnitude errors!) -- it's $6.6.
Thanks for the catch.

This article puts the website cost at $5bn, and I don't think I've seen anything about what's been paid for it in government-employee/-hardware-infrastructure costs... So this all is just a lower-bounds anyway.