 What Is A Centillian? |
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  Jul 11 2006, 09:28 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,314 Joined: 11-January 06 From: Chennai, India Member No.: 16,932  |
A Centillian is a number in which 1 is followed by 103 zeros.
A centillian is, QUOTE 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 |
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Jul 11 2006, 09:54 PM
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EVIL CORN! Group: Members Posts: 623 Joined: 7-May 06 From: USA Member No.: 23,230  |
That's cool, but do you think anyone will ever use it? Maybe to describe gas in the next 100 years lol. I would hate to write that out. What if you missed a 0?
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Jul 12 2006, 12:24 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 25-June 06 Member No.: 25,660 |
A googel is a 1 followed by 100 zeros:
QUOTE 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 And a googelplex is a 1 followed by a googel zeros: This will take up probable 20 miles of room if writted out on a line, just think about it, a 1 followed by a googel zeros |
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Jul 13 2006, 07:35 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 4-June 05 From: in the dark abyss... Member No.: 7,868 |
Is there even a reason to make such a word as Centillian or Googleplex?
I don't see much point in making a number that has 103 zeros... |
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Jul 13 2006, 08:13 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 12-July 06 Member No.: 26,493 |
This might be an interesting read for you all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number |
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Jul 17 2006, 02:25 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 16-July 06 Member No.: 26,732 |
well i think it would make sense that if you had to use it use it as a fraction to represent it instead of having to write down all the zeros.
So for example if you wrote it it would be suach as 250 centillian = 250/103 |
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Jul 17 2006, 05:40 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 6-March 05 Member No.: 4,202 |
Iīm confused. I was never good at maths
 but whatīs the point of this? I mean... if there is a name for a number which is a 1 followed by 103 zeros... should be another with 33 zeros, 8 zeros, 3426899 zeros? I suppose there must be a logical reason for 103 zeros. If not, itīs completely dumb. 
This post has been edited by Sprnknwn: Jul 19 2006, 12:56 PM |
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Jul 17 2006, 08:06 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 192 Joined: 20-December 05 Member No.: 15,962 |
It is completely and utterly impossible to write a googelplex. Even if all the known matter in the universe was converted into paper or disk space, there would not be enough matter to write down a googelplex!
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Jul 18 2006, 01:59 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 162 Joined: 18-July 06 Member No.: 26,797 |
QUOTE(uiop @ Jul 17 2006, 04:06 PM)  It is completely and utterly impossible to write a googelplex. Even if all the known matter in the universe was converted into paper or disk space, there would not be enough matter to write down a googelplex! i don't know about that  i'm pretty sure it would be possible to write down a googelplex 
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