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Originally Posted by mickal555
OK I drafted up a large post ages ago about this, but it was deleted. Since this is my thousandth post I want to redo it.
OK the universe is about 13 billion years old.
A Billion = million x million
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That's the old British convention.
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or douse it? it should logically
every time we square a number we need to invent a new name so
10^2 Ten
=100 Hundred
100^2
=1000 Thousand
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Hold it right there. 100 squared is
not one thousand.
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1000^2
=1000000 Million
1000000^2
=1000000000000 billion <<<<<<<<<<< so the universe is 13000000000000 years old I've believed that my whole life
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Makes you feel younger, right?
