The number of grains of sand on Earth.

The number of living things that have died on Earth since the beginning of Earth.

The number of atoms in the Universe.

12/22/2010 1:52:38 PM

# of random posts GeniuSxBoy will continue to make on TWW

12/22/2010 1:53:55 PM

<---there's a counter right there, duh

12/22/2010 1:54:32 PM

The number of chicks I have banged.

12/22/2010 1:54:39 PM

Quote :

"The number of atoms in the Universe."

12/22/2010 1:55:57 PM

number of subatomic particles in the universe

12/22/2010 1:59:35 PM

The number of engorged flies in Africa.

12/22/2010 2:00:54 PM

# of times people on TWW have masturbated

12/22/2010 2:01:28 PM

number of closet gays that will come out now in the military

12/22/2010 2:02:36 PM

number of straight guys that like to take their shirt off and go to gay clubs and dance with other drunk dudes

12/22/2010 2:07:15 PM

I have the answer to #1 actually.

349,408,879,172,397,918,723,987,192,837,918,273,918,273,981,723,971,837,192,731 x10(53)

12/22/2010 2:07:43 PM

Quote :

"number of subatomic particles in the universe"

2x10^920219287819828273829120182843903038765765654654765478660988789765653543544765987

Nailed it.

12/22/2010 2:08:39 PM

# of dollars I have to pay back in student loans

12/22/2010 2:15:10 PM

number of times ive clicked on any thread


number of keys ive pressed on a keyboard in my lifetime

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12/22/2010 2:17:10 PM

one of my biology teachers discussed with us about how many atoms of sodium are in a single cell.

it was something like, if they were the size of peas they would fill 7-8 earths 8 feet deep.

(it was something insane along those lines)

12/22/2010 2:19:36 PM

the thing i always heard was that the nucleus of an atom relative to the atom itself was like a marble in a baseball stadium

12/22/2010 2:20:46 PM

^ man that is so crazy.

i love shit like that

12/22/2010 2:21:33 PM

The size of my...

















































...ego

12/22/2010 2:21:49 PM

^which is inversely related to your penis?




ZING

12/22/2010 2:28:28 PM

Let's do something large.

12/22/2010 2:28:50 PM

this cuckoo english teacher in high school said she wondered if there was any spot on earth (like any square foot) where someone hadn't died on it in history

12/22/2010 2:31:06 PM

106 billion people have lived and died in the past 50,000 years.

I'm sure that the square footage of earth is more than that.

12/22/2010 2:33:06 PM

That's right dweedle, which is why quantum mechanics is so fucking wild.

The number of times throughout history that men have thought about sex.

12/22/2010 2:33:55 PM

i can't even begin to imagine the number 3.

12/22/2010 2:36:21 PM

I answered #3.

12/22/2010 2:37:37 PM

d7freestyler's number

12/22/2010 2:38:30 PM

number of times a bullet has been fired ever

12/22/2010 2:38:57 PM

The number of fucks I give about this thread

oh wait, its 0

12/22/2010 2:40:44 PM

no not, the number of atoms in the universe. i can totally imagine that.

i can't imagine the number three, like it just blows my mind. it's more than two, but less than four. CRAZY

12/22/2010 2:40:56 PM

OMG

Now I can't fathom it. I think threeve is in there somewhere too

12/22/2010 2:41:35 PM

Quote :

"which is inversely related to your penis?"

Sad, but true.

12/22/2010 2:42:36 PM

i dont know any roman numerals over M

12/22/2010 2:42:50 PM

FUCKING PI YO

AND E

12/22/2010 2:44:02 PM

I once had some dumb broad ask me if she could do roman numerals on her computer or if I had to install something for her.

For reals. I just blank stared at her for a minute before she went "Oh..." and looked really embarrassed.

12/22/2010 2:44:09 PM

i didnt know this:

Quote :

" For large numbers (4,000 and above), a bar can be placed above a base numeral, or parentheses placed around it, to indicate multiplication by 1,000, although the Romans themselves often just wrote out the "M"s"

12/22/2010 2:46:11 PM

i still don't really understand imaginary numbers

12/22/2010 3:07:57 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

12/22/2010 3:11:41 PM

So here's the story, and please hear me out before commenting:

I realize this thread is about Numbers I can't begin to imagine.... which I am not. Hear me out, maybe I can give odds of what you think Numbers I can't begin to imagine existing is.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. I play trivia every Tuesday and Friday night with D, the Director of Quality at a company I used to work for (and would like to work for again some day), and his gf, N. One night we're all getting ready to leave the bar so I go to pay for my tab, and the bartender tells me Let's do something large - my debit card was declined. Confused, I ask her to Let's do something like.... try it again, again declined. By this point, D and N are looking over and I'm starting to get embarrassed. N asks me what's up, I say "There's a 1 out of 1x10^10 chance my card is being declined," D says no worries, that means there's a one in ten billion chance of my card being declined, and picks up my tab. Although super embarrassed, I was grateful because I wasn't carrying any other form of payment on me. Is that not rare enough for you?

Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

I get home and check my bank account balance online and everything is normal. No unauthorized transactions or anything. I try again the next day to use my card at Old Navy, but this time brought an american express giftcard that I had with me just in case. Sure enough, debit card is declined and I pay with the gift card. I then exit the store and call my bank angrily and explain what had happened to me and asked what was up. The customer service rep told me that customers who did not have fraud protection would temporarily not have access to their accounts due to system upgrade/maintenance/IT blah blah. I was like OK.... Okay. Let's do 1 out of 1x10^15. That's a one in one quadrillion chance, and decided I'd just pay with my credit card for the next day or so, no big deal.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

A few days go by and I want to get a snocone at Pelican's, but they're cash-only. Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion ATMs in the universe. It is estimated that at least ten percent of all ATMs have a cash dispenser, and there are 6.25×10^18 ATMs with money in them in the universe. I go to the cashpoints ATM and put in my debit card and PIN and the machine says "Unauthorized use: card retained". The ATM ate my debit card. Pissed off, and on a Sunday, there was nothing I could do.

Monday I'm getting lunch with my bf and decided to be nice and pick up the bill, so I go to pay using my CREDIT card, and the server comes back saying my card was declined. Again, embarrassed, I was thankful to have my bf there to cover the payment. If even a billionth of these payments have Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really), there are some 6.25×10^9 (billion) Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors in the universe.

6,250,000,000.

Monday afternoon I go to my bank and tell them what has happened. My card was retained by the ATM because my bank statements had been returned to the bank by my mail carrier. When that happened, the bank sent a replacement debit card to my address, which was also returned. This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small. I found this really odd considering the address on file was my current one and I successfully receive other bills (electric, insurance, etc) there. Bank tells me they'll send a replacement card again, and give me a temp card for the meantime.

I then call my credit card company. Same story: card statements returned by the USPS, which caused them to put a hold on my card.

Aggravated, I went to the USPS station nearest me and explained the issue. They said to write a note to my carrier and put it in my box. I wrote on a post-it note two days ago "Hi, please deliver all mail addressed to jessiejepp to this box. This includes bank/credit card statements. All mail addressed to other individuals should be RTS. Thank you!" and put it in the back of my box where he/she inserts the mail. Both yesterday and today I have received mail (not for me, but for my address), but my note is still there.


I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. I know a lawsuit for punitive damages against a federal agency isn't possible, but I was wondering what (if any) other legal action I can take in this case. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.


Now, what are the odds that Numbers I can't begin to imagine don't exist? If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

12/22/2010 3:25:18 PM

i actually have a hard time imagining any number > 1000

i mean, you know, really grokking it.

that shits larger than you think.

12/22/2010 3:28:57 PM

time and distance it takes to get from one side of the universe to the other

12/22/2010 3:55:24 PM

People don't use the word grok enough.

12/22/2010 4:14:40 PM

10^googol has more digits than there are particles in the universe and is thus so large it is impossible to notate in base 10

12/22/2010 4:27:44 PM

tru. and even just one googol (10^100) is more than the number of particles in the universe.

but all this is trifling shit, really. i want to see just one of you motherfuckers physically count out and place 10,000 individual objects




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12/22/2010 5:51:52 PM

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12/22/2010 9:24:43 PM

In the naming system currently used, 10^99 is duotrigintillion, so a googol is ten duotrigintillion.

Numbers up to 10^3003 have names in our system. That number is a millinillion. You will find the names of all unique names of powers from 10 from 3 (thousand) to 3003 (millinillion) here: http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/BignumbyN.html

Another example:

10^1725 = quattuorseptuagintaquingentillion

Googolplex doesn't have a name in our system. In the "Conway-Wechsler System", this is the name for googolplex:

ten trillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentillitrestrigintatrecentilliduotrigintatrecentillion

Anyway, googolplex has nothing on these numbers:

Skewes' number
Moser's number
Graham's number (largest number ever used in a serious math proof)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewes%27_number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser%27s_number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Moser_notation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers

Good non-wiki links:

http://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html
http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/BignumbyN.html
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/number/howhigh.html
http://sites.google.com/site/numeropedia2/speciallylargenumbers

Go halfway down http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/b/big.htm

to understand this number, called as 'mega'



Go ahead, try to understand it, it will blow your mind, if you can even begin to fathom it. Truly fascinating.

Also try to understand Moser's and Graham's numbers. Quite hard to fathom. Googolplex is infinitesimally small compared to them!


BTW, this site is great... enter any large number into it (upto 10^303 = centillion), and it will name it, using the standard system! For example:

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/reallybignumbers.html
(also http://www.isthe.com/cgi-bin/number.cgi)

92,837,549,123,741,923,472,093,479,123,847,129,347,129,374,129,374,129,374,912,837,412,983,741,928,374,192,387,412,983,741,298,347,129,874,129,384,791,237,412,983,748,374,589,345,689,741,297,341,293,471,923,487,129,384,792,478,293,471,293,487,912,348,791,203,874,091,234,701,297,348

=

ninety-two novemsexagintillion,
eight hundred thirty-seven octosexagintillion,
five hundred forty-nine septsexagintillion,
one hundred twenty-three sexsexagintillion,
seven hundred forty-one quinsexagintillion,
nine hundred twenty-three quattuorsexagintillion,
four hundred seventy-two tresexagintillion,
ninety-three duosexagintillion,
four hundred seventy-nine unsexagintillion,
one hundred twenty-three sexagintillion,
eight hundred forty-seven novemquinquagintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine octoquinquagintillion,
three hundred forty-seven septenquinquagintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine sexquinquagintillion,
three hundred seventy-four quinquinquagintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine quattuorquinquagintillion,
three hundred seventy-four trequinquagintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine duoquinquagintillion,
three hundred seventy-four unquinquagintillion,
nine hundred twelve quinquagintillion,
eight hundred thirty-seven novemquadragintillion,
four hundred twelve octoquadragintillion,
nine hundred eighty-three septenquadragintillion,
seven hundred forty-one sexquadragintillion,
nine hundred twenty-eight quinquadragintillion,
three hundred seventy-four quattuorquadragintillion,
one hundred ninety-two trequadragintillion,
three hundred eighty-seven duoquadragintillion,
four hundred twelve unquadragintillion,
nine hundred eighty-three quadragintillion,
seven hundred forty-one novemtrigintillion,
two hundred ninety-eight octotrigintillion,
three hundred forty-seven septentrigintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine sextrigintillion,
eight hundred seventy-four quintrigintillion,
one hundred twenty-nine quattuortrigintillion,
three hundred eighty-four tretrigintillion,
seven hundred ninety-one duotrigintillion,
two hundred thirty-seven untrigintillion,
four hundred twelve trigintillion,
nine hundred eighty-three novemvigintillion,
seven hundred forty-eight octovigintillion,
three hundred seventy-four septenvigintillion,
five hundred eighty-nine sexvigintillion,
three hundred forty-five quinvigintillion,
six hundred eighty-nine quattuorvigintillion,
seven hundred forty-one trevigintillion,
two hundred ninety-seven duovigintillion,
three hundred forty-one unvigintillion,
two hundred ninety-three vigintillion,
four hundred seventy-one novemdecillion,
nine hundred twenty-three octodecillion,
four hundred eighty-seven septendecillion,
one hundred twenty-nine sexdecillion,
three hundred eighty-four quindecillion,
seven hundred ninety-two quattuordecillion,
four hundred seventy-eight tredecillion,
two hundred ninety-three duodecillion,
four hundred seventy-one undecillion,
two hundred ninety-three decillion,
four hundred eighty-seven nonillion,
nine hundred twelve octillion,
three hundred forty-eight septillion,
seven hundred ninety-one sextillion,
two hundred three quintillion,
eight hundred seventy-four quadrillion,
ninety-one trillion,
two hundred thirty-four billion,
seven hundred one million,
two hundred ninety-seven thousand,
three hundred forty-eight



Some practical examples of large numbers:

Possible bowling games: (66^9)×241 = 5,726,805,883,325,784,576.

Possible Rubik's Cube arrangements: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000

The number of grains of sand on Earth: ~10^23

The number of protons in the observable universe: ~10^86 (a hundred trillionth of a googol)

12/22/2010 9:25:36 PM

The chances that Ernie just happened to post the EXACT same thing!

12/22/2010 9:37:59 PM

Quote :

"That number is a millinillion."

so how much is a millivanillion?

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12/22/2010 9:40:00 PM

lul

12/22/2010 9:40:43 PM

i

12/22/2010 9:41:46 PM

^^^ haha

^^^^ not the EXACT same thing. asshole's formatting is all messed up, forcing us to sidescroll. what a jerk!


[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 9:43 PM. Reason : ]

12/22/2010 9:42:36 PM