Some people are just gullible...

[Night Stalker]

I'm not sure what scares me more, this thread or that I can follow it .....

[/)eathKiller]

well acoording to apple here's how it works...
(had vocal text reading program read out numbers)

1,000,000 Million
1,000,000,000 Billion
1,000,000,000,000 Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 Quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Septillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Octillian
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Nunillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Decillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Quiltiquadllion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Decaquadillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 Trekaquaddillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000 Quataquadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000 Septiquadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 Septicillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 Octriquadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 Nunaquadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Googaplex

O_o

Christ, this thread is boring.

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Pe Ell: Really? I read that about 100 zeros in guinnes books of records a few years ago. I could remember wrong though. But wait, while writing this I found something: A "googol" is by definition, "1 followed by a hundred zeroes," or 10^100 . A "googolplex" is far larger-it is "1 followed by a googol many zeroes." This is the site, I'm not sure how accurate it is: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/course...am2/solutions/

Could it be the US vs UK or similar dispute rising it`s face ??

[True_Moose]

Either way, they're so big, there's no point. It's impossible to picture the amount of zeros in a googleplex. In fact, there aren't that many particles in the universe (!!!) or so I've heard. Thus, it would take more cells in your brain to picture that number than exist, so, content yourself with thinking big
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[ 10-07-2002, 11:18 PM: Message edited by: True_Moose ]

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Arledrian: Christ, this thread is boring.

LMAO Alex you rock, doll [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Although I thought my gilligan story was interesting [img]graemlins/agree.gif[/img]

[Downunda]

Originally posted by Arledrian: Christ, this thread is boring.

Can I get an AMEN! I said AHHHHHHMEEEEHHHN!!!

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Arledrian: Christ, this thread is boring.

You want boring ?? Ever tried doing an assesment you didn`t know about ?? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Kaz]

Originally posted by True_Moose: Either way, they're so big, there's no point. It's impossible to picture the amount of zeros in a googleplex. In fact, there aren't that many particles in the universe (!!!) or so I've heard. Thus, it would take more cells in your brain to picture that number than exist, so, content yourself with thinking big [img]graemlins/jawdrop.gif[/img]

Yep, there are "only" about 10^87 particles in the universe.
But... there are larger numbers. Did you know that the largest number which has a practical application (use, if you will) in mathematics is 10^10^10^34? Now that is a *lot*. An example: If you saw the universe as a giant board of chess, and every particle was a gamepiece, and a move was interchanging any two particles... that would be about the number of possible games there are.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Googaplex

If that's supposed to be Googolplex, they're just plain wrong. That's "merely" 10^57 (I counted), even less than a Googol... nowhere *near* a Googolplex.
And the million/billion thing also depends on language. I know that in German, it's:
10^6: Million
10^9: Milliarde
10^12: Billion
10^16: Billiarde...
and so on and so forth. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Dutch use a similar system?

PS If you think the thread is boring, no one's forcing you to read it. For some people (me included) mathematics is interesting! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 10-08-2002, 07:00 AM: Message edited by: Kaz ]

[Pe Ell]

If you want to write a googolplex in numbers it's easiest to write 10^(10^100).