02-11-2005, 11:29 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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For all you math buffs out there.
I need some help. I have a distance that I would like converted into either a unit of measure or an imaginable distance. Something I can actually show to other people and make them understand. I have tried converting the distance into miles, light years, astronomical units and gigaparsecs, but it's still too large for me to repeat to anyone in a normal context.
Here is the number: 2.2e+99 feet Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you, Feign
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02-11-2005, 12:01 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Easy... it's 7e82 light years.
I'd recommend finding a really really huge object (like the estimated size of the universe). Let them get a good concept of that in their head... and then say "And that object is about 0.00...0001% the size of 2.2e99 feet." What are you talking about that's larger than the universe, if you don't mind me asking?
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02-11-2005, 12:25 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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Thanks for your reply.
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02-11-2005, 08:30 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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02-11-2005, 08:43 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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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? |
02-12-2005, 12:46 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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Whoa... I haven't used CAD since high school. And take it from me, how far away things become is nothing to how small you can mke objects. I saw the latest version of HG Welles' The Time Machine (was rather disappointed) and created my own in there. The viewing space can only go to a certain size... but I found a back door around that. The computer restarted! No joke, I was designing that thing for months... and it got so detailed that the computers didn't have enough memory to create a picture for the screens.
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