Supplementary SAT math question ...

[Wonkster]

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It's a little late to the printer's but here goes ...
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[VAUConnFan]

I have no idea what is closest, but I can tell what is a long, long way off; My knowing what the heck a googolplex is. It sounds more like the next generation of digital movie theaters.

 

[Wonkster]

I have no idea what is closest, but I can tell what is a long, long way off; My knowing what the heck a googolplex is...

Somewhere around 80 years ago, a child's early experiments with words inspired a mathematician to name the figure represented by ten to the 100th power a "googol." That is, 1 followed by 100 zeros.

A googleplex is 10 to the googolth power. It's absurdly large.

 

[FairView]

Did you get permission from wire chief?

 

[boontonbomber]

Somewhere around 80 years ago, a child's early experiments with words inspired a mathematician to name the figure represented by ten to the 100th power a "googol." That is, 1 followed by 100 zeros.

A googleplex is 10 to the googolth power. It's absurdly large.

or 1 followed by a google number of zeros.

 

[Icebear]

or 1 followed by a google number of zeros.

Is that in decimal or binary system?

 

[grizz36]

Is that in decimal or binary system?

Hexadecimal.

Yours Truly, 3F 07DA99D4FFF

 

[HuskyNan]

I have no idea what is closest, but I can tell what is a long, long way off; My knowing what the heck a googolplex is. It sounds more like the next generation of digital movie theaters.

You probably don't have kids. A couple years ago, my sons would insult each other - "You're a billion times dumber than a [insert insult of the day]". Response: "Oh, yeah? Well, you're a googolplex times dumber!". Augh!

 

[MilfordHusky]

Is this a math question or a vocabulary question?

 

[mr006]

Did you get permission from wire chief?

lol - something tells me "there will be a test on this"...

 

[VAUConnFan]

You probably don't have kids. A couple years ago, my sons would insult each other - "You're a billion times dumber than a [insert insult of the day]". Response: "Oh, yeah? Well, you're a googolplex times dumber!". Augh!

I am sure that had I heard my kids insulting each other with such words I would have walked away convinced that they were making up words.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Hexadecimal.

Yours Truly, 3F 07DA99D4FFF

The Amish are really good at hexadecimal:

http://www.brandynaugle.com/hexsigns/hex13-small.jpg

 

[MilfordHusky]

Somewhere around 80 years ago, a child's early experiments with words inspired a mathematician to name the figure represented by ten to the 100th power a "googol." That is, 1 followed by 100 zeros.

A googleplex is 10 to the googolth power. It's absurdly large.

Thanks, Wonk. Now I don't need to Google googol.

 

[justML]

You probably don't have kids. A couple years ago, my sons would insult each other - "You're a billion times dumber than a [insert insult of the day]". Response: "Oh, yeah? Well, you're a googolplex times dumber!". Augh!

Or the ever popular kid-response to an insult: "That's you times infinity plus one".

And who said American kids don't know math!

 

[RegisteredUconn]

Or the ever popular kid-response to an insult: "That's you times infinity plus one".

And who said American kids don't know math!

Just curious, but is one added to infinity before or after multiplying? Not that it matters because infinity plus one and infinity are the same (naturally I'm speaking of countable infinities here).

 

[Icebear]

Just curious, but is one added to infinity before or after multiplying? Not that it matters because infinity plus one and infinity are the same (naturally I'm speaking of countable infinities here).

Added but only raising it to the power of 10

 

[justML]

Just curious, but is one added to infinity before or after multiplying? Not that it matters because infinity plus one and infinity are the same (naturally I'm speaking of countable infinities here).

Remember this is 8 year old thinking . . . if you call me a jerk and I respond with "That's you times infinity plus one" I mean you will be a jerk forever and ever and even more than that. In other words, you are a bigger jerk than me no matter what.

Ahh... I miss childhood

 

[RegisteredUconn]

Somewhere around 80 years ago, a child's early experiments with words inspired a mathematician to name the figure represented by ten to the 100th power a "googol." That is, 1 followed by 100 zeros.

A googleplex is 10 to the googolth power. It's absurdly large.

"Absurdley large" is an absurdley huge understatement. A googolplex is so big it can't be written using conventional decimal notation, i.e., without exponents. A sextillion is really big number: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. One would have to write approximately one hundred sextillion zeroes on every proton, electron, and neutron in the universe in order to achieve the number of zeroes in a googolplex. And that's not the amount of a googolplex, just the number of zeroes needed to write it.

 

[Wonkster]

"Absurdley large" is an absurdley huge understatement...

I never said "absurdley large." I said "absurdly large." But thanks anyway for the fascinating illustration of my point.

Now did you choose the fourth option (the number of female basketball players contemplating a career in modeling) or not?

 

[FairView]

Remember this is 8 year old thinking . . . if you call me a jerk and I respond with "That's you times infinity plus one" I mean you will be a jerk forever and ever and even more than that. In other words, you are a bigger jerk than me no matter what.

Ahh... I miss childhood

I don't miss childhood ... because I never left it. Just ask my wife the day after my college buddies were over.

 

[Bestiarius]

Is that in decimal or binary system?

As the saying goes, There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

 

[Icebear]

Hexadecimal.

Yours Truly, 3F 07DA99D4FFF

If God wanted us to use hexadecimal he would have given us more fingers and toes.

 

[grizz36]

If God wanted us to use hexadecimal he would have given us more fingers and toes.

I have 16 fingers and toes. Don't you? Doesn't everybody?

 

[Icebear]

Then you should be using the deci-deficit system.

 

[uconnfan68]

Somewhere around 80 years ago, a child's early experiments with words inspired a mathematician to name the figure represented by ten to the 100th power a "googol." That is, 1 followed by 100 zeros.

A googleplex is 10 to the googolth power. It's absurdly large.

I have a bank account like that... 100 zeros followed by a 1.