Special Time Today

11/10/09: 08:07:06 54321

Magic Number?

5,2,1,3,4

Decades of Life

First Decade: learning to use body

Second Decade: Discovering Desire

Third Decade: Achieving initial goals

Fourth Decade: Reviewing and Reconsidering

Fifth Decade: Achieving revised goals

Sixth Decade onwards: Teaching?

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:

14500 Days Old Today

10000 days is 27 years, 5 months and 18 days

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)

Arly's 39 & 2/3 Birthday

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

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.

600 Days

Since my birthday on 07/07/07. 

And 300 days til Christmas!

Time and 60

I find it interesting that the hour and minute is subdivided into 60. 

Yet months max out at 30. What does it mean?

Question Time

If we are in the now, and time is going forward, is there an equal and opposite time going backwards?

8 is infinity sideways

Year in Decimals

Today, the 24th of January respresents 6.575% of the year.

Each day is 0.274%

Eeach week is 1.92%

Each month (30day average) is 8.22%

37 New Years

See my post of Oct 22, 2008

As the midnight hour approaches, there are 24 time zones, plus 10 half hour shifts and 3 fifteen minute shifts for a total of 37 times humanity can shriek Happy New Year as their respective second hands click from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00

Phi

Not Pi.

Phi is the symbol for the Golden Ratio,
or: a+b is to a as a is to b.

Arithmetically an irrational number: 1.6180339887...

Faces, Pyramids, all aesthetically pleasing.
All Golden,

Fibonacci Numbers under 10,000

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987,1597,2584,4181,6765,etc...

Bigger Numbers + New Bases: Base 39

If we work in base 10, then if we think of each letter as a new number,
then we have 10+26+3 (being Norwegian):
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrsruvwxyzæøå

Hence å2=42, and 2å=?