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Really, really BIG numbers!...

Postby Fozzer » Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:01 am

Can you get your head around really big numbers?... :o...!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15478580

My brain seizes up at one million... ;D...!

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Re: Really, really BIG numbers!...

Postby machineman9 » Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:29 am

Depending on long and short scale, a billion is a trillion. Why can't they just make a single number that is what it is  ::)

Usually I only ever work in numbers up to a few hundred billion (astrophysics is a large bit of science) and go down to a couple of femto. I miss the days of maths being '2+2'  :P
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Re: Really, really BIG numbers!...

Postby Steve M » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:19 pm

Even stranger is that one trillion of any small denomination would likely take over 100 years to mint.
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Re: Really, really BIG numbers!...

Postby Webb » Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:11 pm

1915 - 20.429 German Reichsmarks =
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