Posted on 12/08/2001 2:26:08 PM PST by ambrose
The chemist saw the fire and thought A fire needs oxygen. He grabbed a blanket, smothered the fire, and went back to bed.
The physicist saw the fire and thought A fire needs heat. He grabbed a pitcher of water, poured it on the fire, and went back to bed.
The mathematician saw the fire, looked around the room, and saw a fire extinguisher. He thought A solution exists and went back to bed.
I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 10th power. Your definition would only be 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 2nd power.
Nyah! Nyah! My googleplex is bigger than your googleplex!!!
8-)
I knew that - I was just seeing if anyone was alert!
It's good that you guys were, the world needs more lerts.
Public school?
I agree, BadJoe, I like the rounding off for practical purposes.
Usually, I even go so far as to round that, BadJoe, for simplicity' sake.
BadJoe, I made an error on the first statement. I was so taken in with the BCS standings I had to reevaluate.
I agree, BadJoe, I like the rounding off for practical purposes.
Usually, I even go so far as to round the numbers you came up with, for simplicity' sake.
For example:
This, rounded off upwards, becomes 0 as well.
;>)
As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power. I remember my physics teacher having us figure out how many seconds it had been to get us up to 1983, from when they started counting. This was only a small fraction of a googleplex.
A googleplex is much larger than the total number of all particles in the visible universe (as calculated by current astronomers). That number is on the order of 10 to the 50th power, which is a tiny tiny fraction of 10 to the 100th power.
And there is no Nobel prize for mathematics.
Incorrect after the sixth decimal place:
1.772453850905516027298167483341145182797549456122387128213807789852911284591032181374950656738544665416226823624282570666236152865724422602525093709602787068462037698653105122849925173028950826228932095379267962800174639015351479720516700190185234018585446974494912640313921775525906216405419332500906398407613733477475153433667989789365851836408795451165161738760059067393431791332809854846248184902054654852195613251561647467515042738761056107996127107210060372044483672365296613708094323498831668424213845709609120420427785778068694766570005218305685125413396636944654181510716693883321942929357062268865224420542149948049920756486398874838505930640218214029285811233064978945203621149078962287389403245978198513134871266512506293260044656382109675026812496930595420461560761952217391525070207792758099054332900662223067614469661248188743069978835205061464443854185307973574257179185635959749959952263849242203889103966406447293972841345043002140564233433039261756134176336320017037654163476320692
is accurate to 1000 places. You must have started with a value of Pi that is shorter than your answer. I started with Pi calculated to 2000 places.
Zero (0), the rounded off square root of pi, is much easier to remember. And zero can be used in many more situations than that long number. It's a candy bar, a Jap fighter plane, the first name of a famous comedian - you name it, as well as the square root of pi....
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