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- From: huuskone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Taneli Huuskonen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Centillion etc. (was Re: Negative Zero)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.161549.6069@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 16:15:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.010711.15778@leela.cs.orst.edu> <Bz7o7s.9zr@max.physics.sunysb.edu> <djoyce.724343714@black.clarku.edu>
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- In <djoyce.724343714@black.clarku.edu> djoyce@black.clarku.edu (Dave Joyce) writes:
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- >[...] I don't
- >know if the unit (namely, one) would have to be named after some famous
- >counter or mathematician such as Ahmes, Thales, Pythagoras, or Archimedes.
- >Imagine using "megapyth" or "megaarch" instead of "million".
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- What's wrong with "megaone"? :-)
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