A New Term For Astronomical Numbers

Saw this quote on my iGoogle home page…

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

  • Richard Feynman

More like uneconomical numbers, in this case.

More like uneconomical numbers, in this case.

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