"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> 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.

Do you really find it easy to visualize the number of subatomic particles in
the visible universe? I don't see why thinking about that would be more
informative than, say, 1E80.

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