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Monday, 12th April 2004
One hell of a big number!
Most of us who are vaguely interested may already know that the Googol is a pretty big number1.
Until I read this article on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy site I hadn’t realised just how big it was though.
The article tries to put it into perspective by working out just how big a space would be filled by a Googol of those little silver balls you often find on fairy cakes. It’s big. Very big.
1 It’s 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
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Since moving the site to a new server Scribblings is not as easy to find your way around as it used to be. It used to depend on a script and a database on the server but is currently served as ‘flat html’.
I have some ideas about how to make it a bit easier but they depend on writing another script. I hope to get around to it ‘eventually’.
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