On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:46:11 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> (Personally, I'm still curious to know how they know the universe
> contains 10^80 atoms and not, say, 10^81 or 10^181...)

Averages based on known densities and an estimated volume of the 
universe, probably.

Either that or they just made up an answer and figured the pool of people 
who could refute their answer is very small.

You know that 78.67% of all statistics are made up, right?

Jim

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