Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 12:46:00 12/24/00
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On December 24, 2000 at 11:30:00, Hans Havermann wrote: 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'. Of course I was quoting from an old source, but it's nice to know a name/s have been assigned to astronomical numbers! Come to think of it, I believe I heard on Back to The Future III 10 years ago " 1 in a Googleplex " was used by the professor when reffering to the woman he fell in love with back in 1885;)
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