10-07-2002, 04:35 AM | #21 |
Harper
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Is it just me or does this thread give someone else a headache?
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10-07-2002, 05:29 AM | #22 |
Baaz Draconian
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IIRC:
West of the Atlantic 1 billion = 10^9 East of the Atlantic 1 billion = 10^12 Someone wise once said: "The Americans and the British are separated by a common language" How true [img]smile.gif[/img]
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10-07-2002, 06:42 AM | #23 |
Zartan
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I'm not gullible in the slightest. *looks around for flying termites*
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10-07-2002, 06:55 AM | #24 |
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From what I know, a Google is 1 followed by 100 zeroes. And a Googleplex is 1 followed by a Google zeroes.
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10-07-2002, 07:03 AM | #25 |
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I have a solution to all of this - STOP TALKING ABOUT MATHS! Its maddening, knowing that people actually CARE about numbers they could never possibly use in their lifetimes.
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10-07-2002, 08:02 AM | #29 | |
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Oh yes, and Blind_Prophet, the book claims that the mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew to invent a name for a very large number, and that's where the word "googol" comes from. [ 10-07-2002, 08:05 AM: Message edited by: Kaz ] |
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