Will "Googolplex" Soon Just Be an Economical Number?

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Oct 10th, 2008 by wintercow20

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

That is from the late great physicist Richard Feynman. HT to Jay Nerger.

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2 Responses to “Will “Googolplex” Soon Just Be an Economical Number?”

on 10 Oct 2008 at 1:39 pm1Brad Samples

10^11 stars in the Milky Way galaxy?
on 21 Oct 2008 at 12:42 pm2Patrick

Yes, Brad.
100,000,000,000 stars in the galaxy, approximately. And that is smaller than the national deficit. Ouch.