Originally posted by whgates3 its amazing how you can write down a number that is larger than the estimated number of particles in the [observable] universe ( 10^87 ) on such a small bit of space (5 ascii characters - 40 bits - on the hard drive)...John Napier (inventor of exponential notation) certainly the greatest math genius ever - much much better than gauss...factorial notation is much less discreet & therefore less powerful ( but slightly more dense if the number you need hapens to be a perfect factorial, or you need the most bang for your proverbial buck) - invented by John Wallis, who, compared to Napier, was a loser
Originally posted by CyranoAH Easy, it's the number of results in "Google!" if you do a search for "sex". Daniel