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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

"Economical" Are The New "Astronomical" Numbers

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, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics winner.

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