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Biggest Number2 comments

vaidehipatil wrote 3 months ago: What’s the biggest possible number? The simple answer is infinity but in the 1870s, the mathem … more →

Tags: speech bubble, transfinite numbers, Infinity, aleph-null, aleph-one, Q&A Cosmic Conundrums and everyday mysteries of sci, Robert Matthews, Georg Cantor

Really Large Numbers

AGP wrote 7 months ago: That’s what 60 000 plastic bags, or rather the amount of plastic bags used in the United State … more →

Tags: Science, Really Damn Cool, Art, thought provoking, garbage, Large Quantities, Whole Lotta Crap, mess, excess

Oprompter Budget Cut Visualization

coloradoright wrote 7 months ago: ] … more →

Tags: Government, Idiots, Barack Obama, Budget, visualization

bensansum wrote 8 months ago: “I’m not bored of it though. And I have said it a thousand times. (long pause) I won … more →

Tags: Naughty Words, Bedtime

What does 'One Trillion Dollars' look like?

westtnliving wrote 9 months ago: A friend of mine linked to this great depiction of exactly what we’re talking about when we sa … more →

Tags: Tennessee, national debt, bail out, trillion dollars, enormous debt, what does one trillion dollars look like, one trillion is a thousand billion, one trillion is a million million

1 Trillion Dollars

mrfollett wrote 9 months ago: This is great. As math teachers especially, we know that numbers sometimes start to lose their meani … more →

Tags: Number Sense, trillion

Billion, Trillion, Schmiellion!

hartstoc wrote 10 months ago: I cringe whenever I hear a reporter or politician make casual use of the word “trillion” … more →

Tags: Economics, Trillions, Money, billions, Bailout, stimulus package, stimulus

Strangest Jesus Reference I've Seen

un1crom wrote 10 months ago: “To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus wa … more →

Tags: Religion, mathematics, Bailout, Jesus, trillion, billion, numbers, really big numbers, jesus sized numbers

Big Numbers Evidence: Old School 37 Signals

jpriceless wrote 11 months ago: Figured i would post evidence i come across that supports the ideas that the web needs more big numb … more →

Tags: experience concepts, Design, Evidence, big, numbers, typography

Big numbers for crypto6 comments

CG wrote 1 year ago: My informal advisor/supervisor recommend me this amazing book. It really gives me a big hope that th … more →

Tags: Books

Temple vs. Ohio

inspin wrote 1 year ago: Owls -3 vs. Bobcats The absence of a World Series game tonight has opened the door for a rare Tuesda … more →

Tags: NCAAF, rushing yards, second season

The MegaPenny Project...

crazydomains wrote 1 year ago: From the site: “ Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about m … more →

Tags: visualize large number, very large numbers, megapenny, megapennyproject, visualize big numbers

Another way to discover the size and scale of our solar system

googillion wrote 1 year ago: Another way to discover the size and scale of our solar system First, collect the objects you need. … more →

Tags: numbers, Scale of Space, scale solar system, size solar system. googillion

Getting your head around big numbers

克莱夫 wrote 1 year ago: Everything in China happens on a big scale. This should be no surprise when bearing in mind that one … more →

Tags: Attitude, China, Culture, Food, global issues, Politics, Prosperity, poverty, Crisis

Googol vs. Googillion

googillion wrote 2 years ago: A Googol is a known finite number. A Googillion is a larger unknown finite number. — Googol Fr … more →

Tags: numbers, googillion, googol, googol vs googillion, finite number, infinite number,


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