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Article #2068Re: CPUs at 30 Ghz in the year 2005
From: ranier venner venner
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:40
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:40
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On Sat, 19 May 2001 13:23:07 GMT, Ed Seedhouse <eseedhouse@home.com> wrote: >Some of this revolves around people's inability to understand really large >numbers intuitively. Using scientific notation tends to exacerbate this. >For instance if you say we can evaluate 10^48 out of 10^50 positions this >intuitively looks like you are nearly there, when in fact you are only 1% >of the way there and if it took 100 years to do that you've still got >10,000 years to go! > >Obviously when discussing such large numbers scientific notation is the >only practical method, but it still makes 10^50 look like half of 10^100 at >a cursory inspection, where as 10^100 is actually >100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times >larger than 10^100. good points ed! here's another one. what's bigger? ten to the googol or googol to the ten? (where googol is a 1 followed by a hundred zeros). actually, they're not even remotely close. like comparing a pea to the sun. googol^10 = [10^100]^10 = 10^1000 < 10^googol by a margin which is so large as to be unfathomable.
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