Preposterous!
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"At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system. At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe. "Preposterous!", you exclaim. That is what I thought till I started calculating the thickness myself." from Exponential growth Crikey. That sure puts the exponential growth into perspective for me. And if maths is not your thing, it isn't mine, checkout these Diesel vids. Some weird, some awesome (and one has nudity so ahh be careful.) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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"At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system. At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe. "Preposterous!", you exclaim. That is what I thought till I started calculating the thickness myself." from Exponential growth Crikey. That sure puts the exponential growth into perspective for me. And if maths is not your thing, it isn't mine, checkout these Diesel vids. Some weird, some awesome (and one has nudity so ahh be careful.) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
Interesting. Btw do you know what the largest number known in mathematics is ? Its called the Graham number. It was setup as the upper bound for a problem in combinatrics, for which suprisingly the answer was a low number (6). Look it up when you have sometime. I'm not able to find a decent link to it. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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Interesting. Btw do you know what the largest number known in mathematics is ? Its called the Graham number. It was setup as the upper bound for a problem in combinatrics, for which suprisingly the answer was a low number (6). Look it up when you have sometime. I'm not able to find a decent link to it. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
"If all the material in the universe were turned into pen and ink it would not be enough to write the number down" from Graham's number Crikey. That must be a big number. And no, I didn't know that. I am quite poor at maths. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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"If all the material in the universe were turned into pen and ink it would not be enough to write the number down" from Graham's number Crikey. That must be a big number. And no, I didn't know that. I am quite poor at maths. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/graham.htm[^] It is. :) I couldn't find a link that properly explains the problem (which is quite understandable really) so I'm posting the first link that came up that atleast lists what the number is. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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"At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system. At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe. "Preposterous!", you exclaim. That is what I thought till I started calculating the thickness myself." from Exponential growth Crikey. That sure puts the exponential growth into perspective for me. And if maths is not your thing, it isn't mine, checkout these Diesel vids. Some weird, some awesome (and one has nudity so ahh be careful.) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
Don't mind me, just a little stream of conciousness... Dorothy: If you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything? Lion: Not nobody, not no how. Tin Woodsman: Not even a rhinoceros. Lion: Imp-oceros. Dorothy: How about a hippopotamus? Lion: Why I'd thrash him from top to bottom-us. Dorothy: Supposin' you met an elephant. Lion: I'd knot him up in cellophant. Scarecrow: What if it were a brontosaurus? Lion: I'd show him who's King of the Forest. Group: How? Lion: How? Courage! What makes a King out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in ape-ricot? What have they got that I ain't got? Group: Courage. Lion: You can say that again. Huh?
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"At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system. At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe. "Preposterous!", you exclaim. That is what I thought till I started calculating the thickness myself." from Exponential growth Crikey. That sure puts the exponential growth into perspective for me. And if maths is not your thing, it isn't mine, checkout these Diesel vids. Some weird, some awesome (and one has nudity so ahh be careful.) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
Put one grain of rice on square A1 on a chess board. Put two grains of rice on square A2, four on square A3, and so on for all squares. :) -- Arigato gozaimashita!
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"If all the material in the universe were turned into pen and ink it would not be enough to write the number down" from Graham's number Crikey. That must be a big number. And no, I didn't know that. I am quite poor at maths. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?
Without doing any researching on that number, I would guess that it would be the number of quarks in existence in the universe. However according to quantum mechanics theory and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, we can never measure this number exactly, so... ow, my brain hurts. That's what happens when you try to imagine things larger than the solar system. ;) --Mike-- Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ ---- Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but how will we fit the hamster inside the accordion?