Invisible wrote:
> Of course, 10^80 and 10^90 don't *sound* all that much different. They 
> *are* in fact extremely different (specifically, one is a thousand times 
> bigger!), but they don't look all that different. Something like 10^496 

	Oh dear, no. One is 10 billion times bigger than the other.

> Does anybody know of a list anywhere that gives examples of really large 
> numbers? I'm thinking of things like the number of grains of sand in a 
> cubic meter, the brain cells in a human brain, or the number of 
> subatomic particles in the visible universe. I for one have no idea even 
> approximately "how big" these numbers are.

	Didn't look that up, but the first Skewes number was once believed to 
be the largest number ever used in a proof (or for anywhere useful?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewes_number

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