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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Interesting... Quantum is as Quantum does. Billons and billions gets murkier the further back you go... The Hindu creation speaks of times longer than 13.8 billion... But the earth as an eerily close 4.32 billion


12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:48:00 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: BigEdLB
The Hindu creation speaks of times longer than 13.8 billion...

Larger number in Buddhism works up to Bukeshuo bukeshuo zhuan (不可說不可說轉) or 1037218383881977644441306597687849648128, which appeared as Bodhisattva's maths in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.,[1][2] though chapter 30 (the Asamkyeyas) in Thomas Cleary's translation of it we find the definition of the number "untold" as exactly 1010*2122, expanded in the 2nd verses to 1045*2121 and continuing a similar expansion indeterminately.

So ... yeah I guess. But this is evidently a purely abstract and mathematical exercise, and does not amount to any sort of objective determination of the age of the earth, or the universe.

Btw, I'm happy to report that Cygwin's "bash" shell is not phased at all by the first cited exponent, which it factors in trivial response time:

$ factor 37218383881977644441306597687849648128 37218383881977644441306597687849648128: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 7

Such is the glory of Rome.

17 posted on 02/11/2015 12:32:51 AM PST by dr_lew
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