Ken wrote:
> 
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
> news:4a30e22e@news.povray.org...
>> 5 10^22 Number of stars in the universe.
> 
> 5 10^30 Number of bacteria on the planet Earth
> 
> Assuming bacteria is not unique to this planet how many bacteria inhabit 
> the known universe?

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the universe is 
infinite so it's overall population is 0 because whatever astronomical 
number n you put for the number of people/animal/bacteria/whatever it's 
still n/universe_size, which turns in n/infinite, thus yielding 0 or 
very close. :)

that's why it's so quiet out there... :P

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