Thursday, July 23, 2009

How To Say Really Big Numbers



Almost but not quite infinity

The New York Times featured a story about VISA bills gone awry. The young woman put this # into Google after typing in

How to Say Really Big Numbers which likely brought her to:
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/reallybignumbers.html
twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred












Almost but not quite infinity ;)

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