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Feb 4 2013 03:27pm
pretty cool

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Feb 4 2013 04:08pm
ye, one of the better videos which get posted on jsp ;)
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Feb 4 2013 04:48pm
7 minutes wasted.
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Feb 4 2013 05:01pm
"times it by 10"

"times" is a verb now?
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Feb 5 2013 07:00pm
A whole 7 minutes video based on a number?
I can just create a bigger number in 3 seconds and I am not a scientist. Hey look 10^10000
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Feb 5 2013 07:33pm
Quote (Trademarks @ Feb 5 2013 08:00pm)
A whole 7 minutes video based on a number?
I can just create a bigger number in 3 seconds and I am not a scientist. Hey look 10^10000


10^10,000 is now called a "trademark"
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Feb 5 2013 07:39pm
Quote (Trademarks @ Feb 5 2013 08:00pm)
A whole 7 minutes video based on a number?
I can just create a bigger number in 3 seconds and I am not a scientist. Hey look 10^10000


I'f I'm not mistaken. The googolplex is actually bigger than the number you just tried to make bigger?
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Feb 5 2013 07:47pm
Quote (ttdskann @ Feb 6 2013 03:39am)
I'f I'm not mistaken.  The googolplex is actually bigger than the number you just tried to make bigger?


You're not mistaken, it is bigger than 10^10000. A googolplex is 10^(10^100) which means ten to the power of a googol (1 followed by 100 0's.)
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Feb 5 2013 07:54pm
In the PBS science program Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 9: "The Lives of the Stars", astronomer and television personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in standard form (i.e., "10,000,000,000...") would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe provides.
An average book of 60 cubic inches can be printed with 5×105 zeroes (5 characters per word, 10 words per line, 25 lines per page, 400 pages), or 8.3×103 zeros per cubic inch. The observable (i.e. past light cone) universe contains 6×1083 cubic inches (4/3 × π × (14×109 light years in inches)3). This math implies that if the universe is stuffed with paper printed with 0s, it could contain only 5.3×1087 zeros—far short of a googol of zeros.

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