In a message dated 4/18/2005 6:48:26 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
has 99,094 digits, 6,249 of which are trailing zeroes.
(That one even took a measurable length of time on this 3GHz processor. Complete value � about 22 pages � available on on request.)
Naw.
Translate it into binary and redecorate your den.
(1) My den is covered in real wood paneling, so it doesn't need re-decorating.
(2) That would only be around 300,000 characters (99,094/lg 2), which at a reasonable font size would not even cover one wall. (I am thinking of those displays which feature many pages of rows and rows of dots pasted together to until they have 1,000,000 dots in order to illustrate what "one million" of something really looks like. Now if they would only make a similar display showing one billion or one trillion repetitions of the character "$" (preferably in red ink) and use it to cover the Washington Monument or the Ellipse or the states of Maryland and Virginia or something else clearly visible from the windows of the Capitol so as to remind Congress-critters of just how much a billion or a trillion dollars is . . . )
Now, if all the Chinese in the world were to line up on the equator----
--how many would drown?
Julia has already given an adequate answer.
-- Ronn! :)
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