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Shouldn't there be a way to answer those questions that start with "How much..." but have no possible answer?
Example: "How much do you love me?" (Just in time for Valentine's Day).
I usually answer something non-clever like "A quart," but my cynacism seems a bit out of place there.
I
want UNITS, damn it!
Now I can say, "I love you 27 ums" or, to another question, perhaps I could say "I'll be done 12 ums from now"
Uh-oh, I see a problem here...
Google Math
http://www.google.c...ogy/pigeonrank.html
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
Gogol's Nose Is Missing
http://news.bbc.co....ainment/2291483.stm
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
That didn't take long, did it?
http://whatis.techt...9_gci822188,00.html
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
Google History
http://www.google.c...porate/history.html
[UnaBubba, Oct 04 2004]
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This is baked. There's an obscure branch of mathematics, called the Theory of Infinitesimability. |
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In this theory, you routinely use operators such as infinity/google, infinity/trillion infinity/billion etc. |
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measure it in lengths of string. |
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you just reminded me, my kids used to tell me they loved me in numbers i.e. I love you 47 to which you had to reply with a higher number. |
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I sometimes split hairs for a living...you can tell the professionals from the hobbyists by their ability to acknowledge and quantify the amount of uncertainty in their measurements. |
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Reliability is rarely less than twice the discrimination.... |
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// I love you 47 to which you had to reply with a higher number // |
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unless they'd been really baaaad teletubbietes, [po] |
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The search engine, Google, was actually called Googol, until the venture capitalist who stumped up the cash for development made his cheque payable to "Google", necessitating a name change in order to bank the cheque. |
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A googol, 10^100, is a very large number. For instance, if we measure the volume of the Earth, assuming it was all sand (of a grain size 0.5mm or 1/50in cubed) there would be about 8.8^30 grains of such sand. The known universe probably contains about 10^80 atoms of all elements combined. |
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To write a googol, just put 100 zeros after a 1: 10,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,
000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,
000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000
A googolplex is unimaginably large, 10^Googol. You simply cannot get a measure for this one. To quantify it, imagine the entire universe being packed solid with neutrons, with no interstitial spaces, then the number would be about 10^128. |
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If you tried to write a googolplex you would run out of paper before getting 1/1,000,000,000% of the way once you had used all of the material in the universe for paper. If you tried to write it electronically then you would need 10^960,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000,
000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000
1000GB hard drives, if my maths are right. |
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There are larger numbers proposed, but so what? |
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[White space inserted. --admin] |
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//The search engine, Google, was actually called Googol, until the venture capitalist who stumped up the cash for development made his cheque payable to "Google", necessitating a name change in order to bank the cheque.// |
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Right. I've also linked the latest intel on their search algorithm. |
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Their nearest competitor, Booble, goes after much larger numbers, of course. |
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Check out Gogol - funny 19th cent. Russian author. |
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Didn't he have a stuck up nose? |
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I suppose this would cover things like being able to offer somebody a smidgeon of ice cream in a jiffy. |
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except that jiffies have at least occasional definitions |
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// Shouldn't there be a way to answer those questions that start with "How much..." but have no possible answer? // |
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Think about that a bit longer and then get back to us. |
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You could also use reference points instead of units:
Dear, I love you more than my secretary.
This implies that the amount of love for his spouse is *greater than* his love for his secretary.
Or, this could mean that he loves his wife more than his secretary loves his wife.
Either way, he wins by a landslide (or two). |
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Yeah, but if she says, "How big does my bum look in this?" |
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After checking my last anno for spelling, grammar and style, I realized that this answer, even though technically correct per Douglas Adams, would start a 3 day long argument. I'll say 4ish. |
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[tsuka] I've checked your math, and your slightly off.The answer should be:
Pretend not to hear, then go out for *42* pints.
Quickly. |
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//can be more simply represented in logarhithmic terms or exponential terms or whatever they call that contstantly increasing thing// |
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[waugsqueke] I have thought about it, and now I am getting back to you. Any other orders?
//then get back to us// Are there more than one of you? |
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pat, isn't this why we have logorithms, exponents, and decibels, and the such already? |
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