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September 25, 2009

WORD

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. - Richard Feynman

1 Comments:

Blogger Lars said...

That is nothing. There is an estimate that there are 10^30 tailed phages on the planet earth alone:

http://www.asm.org/division/M/M.html

September 25, 2009 7:12 PM  

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