Author: Hans Havermann
Date: 08:30:00 12/24/00
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On December 22, 2000 at 13:34:46, Terry McCracken wrote: >Again I quote Dr. Davidson: " Kasner and Newman estimate that the total of >possible moves in a game of chess is 10 to the power ( 10 to the 50th ). >This a figure for which we have no name... Rudy Rucker (Mind Tools, 1987) suggested the name Nplex for the number 10^N. John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy (The Book of Numbers, 1995) recommend its use. Thus, the name of that number would be 'fiftyplexplex'.
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