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Can you count?
Poll ended at Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:58 pm
I have to take off my shoes to do that 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
Absolutely but I wouldn't say I'm professor math 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
I am a counting prodigy 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
I rule counting! Bow down! Bow! 36%  36%  [ 4 ]
Just, yes 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
what's counting? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other, I can't choose 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
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buhubs
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The question is just, what's the highest number you can count to, I'm not talking about infinity, it has to be some specific number.
The highest number I can count to is nine hundred ninety-nine nonnillion, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety nine

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That number is 999,000,000,000,000,000,000,999,999, which you could easily count higher than (Since you've had numbers in the millions and billions place in the counting to get to the original number)
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I can count to 999 google, 999 decillion, 999 nonillion, 999 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 999 quintillion, 999 quadrillion, 999 trillion, 999 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999. ;)

Bow down to me!

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Pfff...a bigger feat is memorizing the digits of pi. How high can I potentially count? As high as there are named places. Would I spend my time physically counting that? Probably not...not by an interval of 1, at least. What's the highest I HAVE physically counted to before using an interval of 1? 1,000, when I was in 1st grade. Ah, those were the days.

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I can count to Graham's number. I've done it. Like... fifty times.

(voted for taking off shoes.. just cuz I hate shoes anyway)

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ChickenLeg wrote:
I can count to 999 google, 999 decillion, 999 nonillion, 999 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 999 quintillion, 999 quadrillion, 999 trillion, 999 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999. ;)

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YEAH WELL I CAN COUNT TO A JILLION

Seriously, though, I haven't tried this...ever...

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I've counted as high as 74,000 once, we were in the car and I had absolutely nothing to do.

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PianoManGidley wrote:
Pfff...a bigger feat is memorizing the digits of pi.

That list is innacurate. I have it memorized at about 25, and my math teacher knows about 40.

There is this huge banner outside his math room, and he had a contest to see who could memorize the most.

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The highest I have ever counted is to like, 50,000.

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I once counted to a thousand before I found more interesting things to do when there was nothing to do.

The highest number I know of is, um, a googleplex? Or possibly Graham's number.

A googleplex would take many lifetimes just the write out.

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Shwoo wrote:
A googleplex would take many lifetimes just the write out.


Not really. It's just 1 followed by 1,000 0s, that's not too much.
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Really? I was told that it had a google zeros.

(One Wikipedia later)

It does have a google zeros. Uh... I was right, and you were wrong, I'm gonna sing the I-was-right-song, so nya nya nya nya nya!

Or maybe I won't sing the I-was-right-song.

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It does have a google zeros.


Or rather, a googol zeros. Google is a search engine. Googol is a number. Googleplex is the headquarters for said search engine. Googolplex is a really massive number.

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I'm pretty sure it can be spelled either way.

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I'm pretty sure it can be spelled either way.


No, I'm pretty sure "Google" came out of when the founders spelled it incorrectly.
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Really? The book I read it in spelled it as google, and this was before Google went online. Maybe I just remember wrong. I haven't seen that book for a long time.

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Eh. Who knows.

Edit: Screw that.

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The book probably spelled it wrong too, then.

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Yeah, you're right. For some reason I thought 10^10^100 was 10^1000.

But it's definitely spelled googol and googolplex (Despite Firefox's disagreements)
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I get lost after the high high billions.

Googol = 100 zeros.
Googolplex = Googol zeros.

Googol (The word.) was invented by a little kid saying "Wow, that looks like a googol!"

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I can count to recursion.

x= z+1

z= x

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bwave wrote:
I can count to recursion.

x= z+1

z= x


Huh?

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I can count to recursion too.

When I was little, I read a book that said that a million kids standing on each other's shoulders would reach higher than Mount Everest, a billion kids would reach higher than the moon, and a trillion kids would reach the closest approach of Saturn. Unfortunately they didn't get up to a quadrillion.

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