Who can name the bigger number?

Tuesday 14 March 2006

In honor of Pi Day, here's a scholarly but entertaining article about really big numbers: Who Can Name The Bigger Number?

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Nate Finch 10:10 AM on 17 Mar 2006

That's so friggin' cool. I love the little trivia bits, like you could fit 10^63 grains of sand in the known universe. And that there are 10^14 neurons in the brain, and the most complex computer currently only has 10^12 logical gates.

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