Mathematics may not teach us about how to add happiness or subtract sadness. But it does give us one great hope that all the problems have atleast a single solution.
Monday 16 December 2013
Have you heard about this before?
HOW WOULD YOU NAME A SIXTY ONE DIGITS NUMBER SUCH AS THIS: 7, 346, 648, 004, 560, 986, 215, 348, 444, 286, 445, 305, 146, 039, 140, 046, 960, 678, 582, 256, 003 ?
SEVEN VIGINTlLLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY SIX NOVEMDECILLION, SIX HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT OCTODECILLION, FOUR SEPTENDECILLION, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY SEXDECILLION, NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX QUINDECILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN QUARTER DECILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT DUODECILLION, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FOUR UNDECILLION, TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX DECILLION, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FIVE MONILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE OCTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY SIX SEPTILLION, THIRTY NINE SEXTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY QUINTILLION, FORTY SIX QUADRILLION, NINE HUNDRED SIXTY TRILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT BILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX THOUSAND AND THREE.
Source: Shakuntala Devi (1984), "The Book of Numbers".
SEVEN VIGINTlLLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY SIX NOVEMDECILLION, SIX HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT OCTODECILLION, FOUR SEPTENDECILLION, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY SEXDECILLION, NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX QUINDECILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN QUARTER DECILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT DUODECILLION, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FOUR UNDECILLION, TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX DECILLION, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FIVE MONILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE OCTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY SIX SEPTILLION, THIRTY NINE SEXTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY QUINTILLION, FORTY SIX QUADRILLION, NINE HUNDRED SIXTY TRILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT BILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX THOUSAND AND THREE.
Source: Shakuntala Devi (1984), "The Book of Numbers".
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