Samsung Did Not send those coins to Apple

Many of you might have read these posts on many blogs about Samsung sending 30 trucks with a Billion dollars as penalty payment to apple.

The story is Fake and the reason you see it on many blogs is just because it sounds awesome at the moment and people keep sharing the story without even thinking about it .

By the way, it really sounds like something Samsung should Have actually done as payback to apple. Apple sued Samsung for some Pathetic Design-Based Patents which have no logical standing as designs are merely a fashion or trend. A design is not exactly Innovation per se. Leaving the Apple vs Samsung debate for some other post and coming back to the topic, The story is Fake and can be proved by simple Math.

-  A 5 cent coin weighs 5 grams ( Source - US mint )
-  A Billion Dollars needs 20 Billion 5-cent Coins
-  So, 20 billion 5-cent coins Multiplied by 5 grams = 100 billion Grams
-  100 billion grams = 100 million kilos = 100 thousand tonnes
-  One of the biggest Heavy duty trucks are the Ford F -450's which are primarily used for coal mining and these truck can carry around 300 tonnes approx.

100,000 tonnes divided by 300 tonnes = 334 trucks

Hence , Proved Fake 

Coming to the legal part of it, under section 16 of the currency act, 1965 , a tender if made in any denomination of a coin such as a 5 , 10, 20 or 50 cent coins cannot exceed a payment of 5$.

Due to the "illusion Of Truth" effect people believe this story is true just like the countless other crap we see on the internet .So, next time someone goes around flashing this news as True, i give you permission to laugh at them. Just tell them to apply some common sense.

Though, it would really be awesome if Samsung actually did that... it could probably be 30 trucks mixed up with 1, 5 or 20$ bills..

Glossary
Illusion of truth - since humans primarily rely on implicit memory, they are more likely to rate as true those statements which they have already heard somewhere else regardless of its veracity.