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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
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- Subject: Re: Naming Large Numbers (Re: Negative Zero)
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 10:43:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.010711.15778@leela.cs.orst.edu> <Dec.15.05.12.50.1992.13518@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec15.162324.28405@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Dec15.210004.2556@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.210004.2556@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- >I submit that one cannot write down, in scientific notation, the number
- >x, such that x is the integer component of pi times n, where n is
- >sufficiently large. (Take n to be ten to the power of the number of
- >atoms in the universe, for instance.)
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- Of course one can.
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- You tell me what $u$ is, and I'll plug it in.
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