Burtzy wrote:
There is a number called a Googol (not the ISP) written about in a book called 1-2-3 Infinity by George Gamov. It is a 10 with 100 as the exponent. It is so big that another name given to it seems silly, 10 duotrigintillion. And that number is dwarfed by a number named the Googolplex. It is a ten with a duotruigintillion as the exponent. The actual size of the number dwarfs the number of atoms in the entire universe and probably in the multiverses if they exist. Another weird thing Gamov discusses in the book is infinity. He states that the infinity of all numbers is smaller than the infinity of even numbers. That makes rational sense in the numbers we can follow: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... is a smaller series than 2, 4, 6, 8, 10... But at infinity, it seems irrational and that's because infinity itself is irrational. Ain't math grand. I'm sticking to f stops.
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