Will “Googolplex” Soon Just Be an Economical Number?
Posted in Welfare State on Oct 10th, 2008
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.