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Author Topic: Need a quick sanity check please  (Read 1675 times)

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Need a quick sanity check please
« on: June 05, 2006, 04:00:00 PM »
Okay, I've been staring at these numbers too long, and they are all blurring together now.  1000 billion = 1 trillion, this I know is correct.  10000 billion = 1 quadrillion, yes?
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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2006, 04:00:57 PM »
I thought that was a turbillion.
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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2006, 04:04:48 PM »
Oh wait, a turbillion has queer zeroes.  A quadrillion has 15.

So yeah, you're right.
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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2006, 05:03:27 PM »
What's 13 gazillion?
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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2006, 05:39:52 PM »
Quote from: Detta on June 05, 2006, 04:04:48 PM
Oh wait, a turbillion has queer zeroes.  A quadrillion has 15.

So yeah, you're right.

She wrote 10000 billion which is only 10 trillion.  She needs two more zeroes for a quad
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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2006, 06:35:01 PM »
I thought that was a brazillian.

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Re: Need a quick sanity check please
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2006, 07:57:56 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on June 05, 2006, 06:35:01 PM
I thought that was a brazillian.



 :?

yeah, those zeroes did look like they'd been waxed...
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