?: 98

beetnemesis: 3.14954483 × 10^78

BlackAdder: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031

Darth_Katie: 5 million

Fanatic-Templar: Terry Pratchett's number of magic divided by zero

Gher: 3,141,592,653,589,793,238,462,643,383,279,502

Hobo: 9884991221*

Isaac: 1,247,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296

Kronin al'Sulc: 82066670353433990334437*

So yeah, division by zero is inappropriate. By "inappropriate" I of course mean that it's awesome, for those of you who haven't seen the latest slang on the community board yet. There's a reason dividing by zero gives Undefined errors on calculators. One school of thought holds that any number divided by zero will give a result of infinity. Fanatic-Templar did not have ? coins, so his bid would have been rounded down to his total of Eddington number coins and he would have been eliminated.

That's what would have happened if I believed in the n/0=? theory. I don't. Instead, I rule that when you divide any number by zero, you get nothing. Note that this does not mean that n/0=0. 0 is a thing. It's a number, an integer, etc. It is often used to represent the value of nothing, but it is not nothing. In computer programming terms, I would say that n/0=NULL.

So F-T submitted a bid of NULL. If he had not submitted a bid at all, his result would have been randomized as shown below. However, because he chose to make a bid of no bid, it has been processed and deemed the lowest, and Fanatic-Templar has been eliminated.

? had the second lowest bid and gets to keep his coins.

?: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296

Darth_Katie: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,626,031,296

Hobo: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,175,746,040,085

Kronin al'Sulc: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,284,164,754,722,751,640,696,859

Gher: 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,911,385,524,055,776,438,186,613,542,247,751,794

BlackAdder: 15,731,976,412,138,727,575,078,048,307,220,373,912,576,673,196,612,589,892,656,865,193,651,109,445,400,265

Isaac: 14,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

beetnemesis: 12,598,179,306,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296

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* I did not hear anything from Hobo or Kronin, so their results were randomized. I had to bend the rules a little, as I was unable to strictly follow the 1d(lowest bid) + 1d(highest bid) for a number of reasons.

First of all, the lowest bid was ruled not to be a bid, and I didn't feel like dealing with 1dNULL. So I used ?'s second-lowest bid of 98 as the benchmark for the random low.

The high bid presented it's own difficulties. 1d3149544830000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 is beyond the scope of any random number generator I know of. I ended up splitting it into two rolls to go with (1d79)d10. The first roll determined the number of digits because the high bid was a 79-digit number. The second roll determined what numbers those digits would be.

You can find the numbers behind Hobo's random bid at http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2790365/ and http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2790368/ .

You can find the numbers behind Kronin's random bid at http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2790371/ and http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2790373/ .