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To: blam

It will take me one second if I count in quadrillions.


4 posted on 12/27/2012 10:46:46 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
... and it would take you 31 million years to count to one quadrillion.

There are famously about pi times ten to the seventh seconds in a year, just about the same number of years cited for the count, and this number is the square root of one quadrillion, or ten to the fourteenth.

This means we are allowed one second for each number in the count, very optimistic even in the ideal. "One hundred thirty seven trillion five hundred twenty two billion three hundred seventy five million one hundred sixteen thousand two hunded thirty EIGHT ... where was I?"

10 posted on 12/27/2012 11:09:25 AM PST by dr_lew
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