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5 Sep 2024 23:13:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astromonical numbers  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 11 Jun 2009 17:36:02
Message: <4a3178c2$1@news.povray.org>
> You know when somebody says that something is "astronomically big"?
>
> ...well, it turns out astronomers use some pretty freakin' big numbers!! 
> o_O

Yeah, the US national debt is about $11.3*10^12 ...

or $113 for every star in the milky way,
or $1738 for every person alive on earth,


I guess that makes it astronomically big.


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