Million, billion and trillion.
- Thread starter pplpilot
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Tin Pot
Guru
Why would the bible be spread among nonhumans? It's for humanity alone.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
My brother used to 'play' hide-and-seek with his two daughters,
They'd go and hide, but after ten minutes of waiting in a hiding place full of rapidly decreasing excitement, they get bored and come out to see what he was doing (watching TV/reading a book): he'd hear them coming, say '98 99 100 - coming' and then 'find' them straight away and say 'OK, we'll have another game next week.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Here you go - names of all 'big' numbers plus Google and Googleplex etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
In the string theory landscape there are theorised to be 10^500 combinations of parameters.
An identical copy you you may be 10^10^29 metres away. That is a lot larger than a googol, but a lot smaller than a googleplex.
In layman terms, is a Googleplex the answer to the age old problem, 'How long is a piece of string?
Cp40Carl
Über Member
- Location
- Wirral, England
Who's to say humans are exclusive to earth? It is an interesting evolutionary question - if the environment is similar to earth, which is almost certainly the case for several million of those planets, will the evolutionary process result in humans or human like animals.
There may also be several billion different gods (or, more probable, several billion different civilisations who, like us, have fabricated gods).
We've probably strayed a little far from the op!
by coincidence I was chatting with a paleoentologist at the Tyrell Dinosaur museum in Drumheller, Canada yesterday.
Early in her training her class had been sent off to come up with mental images that put across the real scale of geological time.
Hers was:
Take some normal photocopier paper. Stack up 1 Billion (us version) sheets. How high is the pile?
have a guess before looking below.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..
.
.
.
.
.
4 times the height of Mount Everest.
jefmcg
Guru
Tin Pot
Guru
Umm, no it's not interesting evolution-wise because it says nothing about evolution. Only in a near or actual infinite universe could the same Homo sapiens species evolve, so it's interesting only from a probability point of view, which is the same as just saying 'it's not interesting at all.'
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
If you were to write out every number in full, you wouldn't use the letter B until you got to one billion.
