tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 16 03:18:43 1996
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Re: billions
- From: Niall Hosking <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: billions
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:18:12 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Michiel Uitdehaag" at Oct 15, 96 08:51:18 pm
> ANd you ofcourse have gogol, after the sound a baby of some
> engineer or mathematician made, representing 10E100 or for
> normal people: a lot.
Actually, that's a 'googol'. And there is one larger number - a
'googolplex'. that represents 10^10^100 - not a number you need very
often :)
Try defining *that* in Hol! :)
Has anyone thought of a way of representing exponential numbers in
tlhIngan Hol yet?
> Not that this has got anything to do with tlhIngan Hol, just
> had to show that I'm slowwitted, but not entirely stupid.
> Most of the times.
>
> I'll shut up.
>
> Sorry for this.
No problem - if people are throwing around English words with more than
opne meaning, we need clarification...
> jejQIb
qSeroHS
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