Monday, 23 March 2009

Google?

A Googol is 10 to the power of 100

or 1 with 100 zero's: like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

aka: ten duotrigintillion on the short scale, ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale, or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale

A googol is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which has been variously estimated from 1079 up to 1081

As for a googolplex: A the number one followed by one googol zeroes, or ten raised to the power of one googol:

Friday, 20 March 2009

14500 Days Old Today

10000 days is 27 years, 5 months and 18 days

Monday, 9 March 2009

The Power of Two

From 'The Black Swan': The Story of the Chessboard.

The inventor of the chessboard requested a the following compensation: one grain of rice for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight, then sixteen and so on doubling every time. The King granted this request, thinking the inventor was asking for a pittance, but he soon realized that he was outsmarted. The amount of rice exceeded all possible grain reserves!

2 to the power of 64 is something like 64 Quintillion (a Billion Trillions)

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Arly's 39 & 2/3 Birthday

I am the ripe old age of 39.666 today!!!

Monday, 2 March 2009

How Old?

Universe is 13.7B years old
Earth is 4.56B years old

The oldest item discovered are Zircon Crystals in Australia: 4.5B years old.