Author: Tanya Deborah
Date: 19:20:02 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 22:05:39, Mike Byrne wrote: >snip >>> >>>All your answers are welcome... >>> >>>My best Regards! >>> >>>Tanya. >> >>6.5104179521361946395624758693608e+308 >> >>I know this is the exact number of chess positions, because I counted them one >>day using my Palm and Chess genius. >> >>But how do you count all the atoms in the universe? I might need a newer Palm >>for that one ...hmmmm ....yea, I could that on of those new palms. >> >>Hold on - let me go talk to my wife and explain to her why I need a new palm. >> >>THANKS - You gave me the perfect reason for a new Palm - to count all the atoms >>in the universe. >> >>eh ...Does anybody want to help? > > >got the answer for atoms - it's right here > >" >It seems, then, that the number of atoms in the Universe is at least about 4e78, >but perhaps as many as 6e79. I would suggest 1e79 as a reasonable estimate. That >is, 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 >000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 atoms. >" > Thanks Mike, very nice page. But how about the total number of chess positions??? , >http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook/universe.html > >looks like "positions in chess" beats "atoms in the universe" by a fair amount >.... > >...now about the 32 man EGTB that I was thinking about - how many drives would I >need?? > > >;>)
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