#really big numbers

[happter-n-friends]

I want to claim a number's name, “Infiniplex β”, a googolplex exponents of googolplex on googolplex and “Infiniplex α”, which is Minecraft Universal Contant exponents of Minecraft Universal Constant on Minecraft Universal Constant. Which is already basically finite infinity, but made more infinite. 

It probably wouldn't ever have a practical use other than "This number can be classified as infinity, but it's not technically infinity"

[besttop10s]

TOP 10 ILLEGAL VEHICLES:

The list of the top ten illegal vehicles is as follows:

1. Go-karts - 100,000,000

2. Lamborghini Gallardo - 50,000,000

3. Fast women - 40,000,000

4. Ferrari - 35,000,000

5. Supercars - 25,000,000

6. Buggies - 15,000,000

7. ATV's - 10,000,000

8. Polos - 5,000,000

9. Super tuners - 4,000,000

10. Dirt bikes - 3,000,000

[probaway]

We are going extinct

We are going extinct

In Guy P. Harrison’s book At Least Know This on page 115:

“The most comprehensive study ever done on the total volume of Earth life concluded that there are likely more than 2 trillion species alive right now, and only about one-thousandth of one percent (0.001 percent) of them have been identified. Attach that 1-trillion-living-species figure to the widely accepted estimate that about 99 percent…

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[showerthinks]

If a billionaire gives you 0.1% of his money, you become a millionare

[nique-blog1]

A mole of pennies distributed to the world's 7 billion people would let each person spend $1 million per second for a whole year.

Happy (belated) mole day!

[stoicwonk]

Super Duper Committee

The so-called "Super Committee" in the US Congress, composed of six republicans and six democrats, is supposed to be haggling its way towards USD 1.2 trillion in budget cuts, spread over the next ten years. For the record, that's $120 billion per year, out of an annual budget of approximately $3,450 billion per year. That's about 3% of the budget, per year - assuming that they actually manage to keep from increasing the total budget.

Just thought I'd point this out. I'm going to try to do so whenever I see numbers dishonestly printed.

[stoicwonk]

Numeracy, Honest*

We live in an age of numbers. There is, sadly, no getting around it. Bureaucratic democracy excels at collecting numbers. Without them there is no measurement, no way to identify problems that don’t exist, and no way to demonstrate that current methods are not solving said problems.

These days, we live in an age of Really Big Numbers: billions, trillions, and, for nostalgia, millions. Most of the Press just reports these numbers as words, relying on a general sense that  some how m<b<tr. 

This is really quite dishonest. In elementary math, I was taught that you should use the lowest common denominator to compare fractions. We should do the same thing with Really Big Numbers (hat tip to XKCD for this idea).

Thus, in my posts I will try to avoid printing things like “The Congress has promised to make $10 billion in cuts to the $3.4 trillion federal budget over the next ten years,” without also printing something like “The Congress has promised to cut $10 billion over ten years of an annual budget of $3,450 billion.” If I really want to scare you, I may write something like: “The Congress has promised to cut $1 billion a year from a cumulative ten-year budget of $34,500 billion.”

*I cheated. This is a re-posting of a page called "On Numbers" under "Notions." I wanted to have a first post for the tag "Really Big Numbers."