Re: gismo/gizmo

Subject: Re: gismo/gizmo
From: Bonnie Nestor <mnj -at- ORNL -dot- GOV>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 09:32:01 -0400

In article <DCqHnt -dot- 4GJ -at- cix -dot- compulink -dot- co -dot- uk>, zulu -at- cix -dot- compulink -dot- co -dot- uk
("Steve Delanghe") wrote:

> Not to mention googolplex, which is just a *very* large, indefinite but
> not infinite, number

Actually, a googolplex is a googol googols -- a googol (ten to the
hundredth power) to the hundredth power. As you say, *very* large, but not
indefinite, at least mathematically speaking.

My favorite term for a large but indefinite number is "bazillion" [:-)].

Bonnie Nestor
mnj -at- ornl -dot- gov
DISCLAIMER: I work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for Lockheed Martin Energy
Systems, which is under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy -- but I
don't speak for any of them, and they return the favor.


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