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kolila · 02-11-2005, 08:43 PM

to try and help someone visualize such a HUGE number,
id put it this way,

if i were to stack a whole bunch of 2mm thick pennies on top of one another, 2e64 pennies* would give me a pile of pennies beyond the moon (400 000 km away) and the sun (150 million km away), which would in fact reach the nearest star "Proxima Centauri" (which is about 4 light years away). so obviously, e99 would be a little further than that

1km = 3280feet

* (i use 64 instead of 99 because 2e64 is actually a documented distance i found)

does that make sense?

02-11-2005, 08:43 PM	#7 (permalink)
kolila Upright Location: canada	to try and help someone visualize such a HUGE number, id put it this way, if i were to stack a whole bunch of 2mm thick pennies on top of one another, 2e64 pennies* would give me a pile of pennies beyond the moon (400 000 km away) and the sun (150 million km away), which would in fact reach the nearest star "Proxima Centauri" (which is about 4 light years away). so obviously, e99 would be a little further than that 1km = 3280feet * (i use 64 instead of 99 because 2e64 is actually a documented distance i found) does that make sense?