Friday, 20 March 2009
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
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.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Saturday, 21 February 2009
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?
Monday, 9 February 2009
Question Time
If we are in the now, and time is going forward, is there an equal and opposite time going backwards?
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