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Started by maurice clark, 10/09/2008 02:10PM
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Maurice Clark
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Hi all,

Just seen this little item on the ABC website.

"US debt clock runs out of digits"

They should not call big numbers "astronomical" any more. We cannot keep up with the economists! cwy Trouble is... "economical" does not have quite the same ring!!!!! 8O

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/10/2387104.htm?section=justin

Cheers,

Maurice
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Posted 10/09/2008 05:35PM | Edited 10/09/2008 05:36PM #1
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"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, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
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