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- From: jeremy@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU ((-| Jeremy |-) Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Negative Zero
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.010711.15778@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 01:07:11 GMT
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- Some guy in Southern California proposed a method of naming multiples
- of ten which included a `logical' system for naming very large numbers
- (the largest being milli-decilli-fiveillionillion). Does anyone have a
- reference for this.
-
- [OBtrivia: this is one of my plan files. Amendments welcome]
- n
- --- = I (infinity) (n>0)
- 0
-
-
- n
- --- = -I (probably) (n>0)
- -0
-
- Numbers greater than infinity, and less than negative infinity
- include gadzillion, squillion, and zillion, and are possibly in
- the class NaN (not a number).
-
- My favourite is -0, which I intend to
- understand, in the same way that 0 was discovered,
- understood, and used.
-
- For reference here is a number scale:
-
- I infinity
- . .
- . .
- . .
- 10^google googleplex
- 10^? milli-decilli-fiveillionillion
- 10^303 centillion
- 10^140 asankheyya
- 10^100 google
- 10^87 #electrons in known universe
- 10^63 vigintillion
- 10^15 quadrillion
- 10^12 trillion
- 10^9 billion
- 10^6 million
- . .
- . .
- . .
- 3 three
- 2 two
- 1 one
- 0 zero
- -0 negative zero
- -1 negative one
- -2 negative two
- -3 negative three
- . .
- . .
- . .
- -I negative infinity
-