Google ... Amazing ... Maths Guys, Shoot Me Down

[joggerjayne]

I love these facts ... but I'm ready for the maths guys to shoot me down.

A "googol" is a 1 followed by 100 0's.

The googol has no real practical application.

BUT ... !

If you have 70 people in a queue, there are MORE THAN a googol different ways in which you could line up those people.

AND YET ... !

When you look into the sky, there are FEWER THAN a googol ATOMS(!) in ALL the stars in the visible universe.

How fab is that ???

(I hope it's right)

=0/

[jno]

Google was originally called BackRub.

I don't know how many ways there are of giving 70 people a backrub, though.

[joggerjayne]

Well, there are more than a googol ways that they could stand and queue up for a backrub!

Good decision to go with a different name!

[bibblebub]

70!

[cazzz1975]

a googolplex is 1x10 to the power of googol

[tiggerblue10]

100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0

[jno]

every time you breathe, you inhale a molecule of Julius Caesar's dying breath.

[tiggerblue10]

Oh crap, my eyes have gone funny!

[joggerjayne]

That's a lot, cazzz.

Now you're talking "MPs' overnight expenses" sort of numbers !!!

[joggerjayne]

In that case, jno ...

Presumably you inhale a molecule of EVERYBODY's dying breath ?

[joggerjayne]

Tiggy ... I'm not going to count the 0's.

[joggerjayne]

bibble ... why 70?

[bibblebub]

numbers of the order of a googol are a reason why financial institutions are quite interested in the development of quantum computers

[bibblebub]

! is the mathematical symbol for factorial and so:-

70! = 70x69x68x67x...x3x2x1 = a big number

[joggerjayne]

O que e um "quantum computer" ???

[EdCrone]

I think tiggerblue10's just been blinded by science!

[joggerjayne]

Thanks, bibble.

Or, in the spirit of this thread ... "bibbol"

=0)

[joggerjayne]

Hello, EdCrone.

=0)

[bibblebub]

p.s. that 70! is the number of ways of forming a queue of 70 people

[joggerjayne]

Oh, fabbity.

I LOVE threads where you learn stuff.

[DTCwordfan]

Thannk you, jno, for your info on Julius C - I always wondered what the secret ingredient was in a Caesar dressing? Now I know, a miniscule dose of halitosis.

Nice.