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Atoms.
oromis:
i know something smaller than all of that!
A small portion of *whatever you say*
Dropshock:
We discussed this in Gateway to Tech at school. Heres what he told us:
"Imagine that I offer to give you one atom of gold for every second that has elapsed since the Big Bang, the beginning of time. How much gold am I offering you?"
He told is we'd get 21 cents.
Jesus christ.
Sirrus:
Now think of all the atoms that can possibly be contained in the universe and you have still not conceptualized Graham's Number
For those of you who don't feel like reading a wikipedia page about massive numbers, this is how to imagine Graham's number.
Take 3^3^3. That is 19,683. This is the number of 'To the power of...'s in the next step of Graham's Number. There are 64 steps in this process. That is Graham's number. I daresay this number is larger than most people's conceptions of infinity.
General Nick:
--- Quote from: Dropshock on October 08, 2009, 08:11:59 PM ---We discussed this in Gateway to Tech at school. Heres what he told us:
"Imagine that I offer to give you one atom of gold for every second that has elapsed since the Big Bang, the beginning of time. How much gold am I offering you?"
He told is we'd get 21 cents.
Jesus christ.
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Holy Shiites.
oromis:
wow...dropshock's teacher sounds awesome, he gives you 21 cents :D