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Old 05-26-2012, 03:29 AM   #1
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Default 1 billion seconds..
Thats what this clock is going to tick. Every second one added till we reach 1 billion seconds. In Dutch we refer to the name miljard.

Do you ever consider how large a number like a billion is? When we speak of money or in time?

http://eenmiljardseconden.frankdeboosere.be
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Old 05-26-2012, 03:38 AM   #2
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Thats what this clock is going to tick. Every second one added till we reach 1 billion seconds. In Dutch we refer to the name miljard.

Do you ever consider how large a number like a billion is? When we speak of money or in time?

http://eenmiljardseconden.frankdeboosere.be
How much is a Million vs Billion vs Trillion
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Old 05-26-2012, 03:41 AM   #3
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Well you can take shortcuts, but this counts in seconds to a billion. It will last 31 years and a little more to reach.

Try to wrap your mind about the number billion and it's smallish compared to what is being used these days in science.

Not to mentions computer components like transistors in CPU and GPU.
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Old 05-26-2012, 03:43 AM   #4
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It's interesting, but I'm not going to keep up with it. It'll take almost 32years to complete and I'll probably forget about this in less then 32 hours.
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Old 05-26-2012, 03:48 AM   #5
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in 32 years we all will be Chinese and gay
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Old 05-26-2012, 03:50 AM   #6
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It's interesting, but I'm not going to keep up with it. It'll take almost 32years to complete and I'll probably forget about this in less then 32 hours.
http://eenmiljardseconden.frankdeboosere.be/message

send a message to yourself then.
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Old 05-26-2012, 04:53 AM   #7
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I like Graham's number myself...
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Old 05-26-2012, 06:26 AM   #8
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I like Graham's number myself...
it's no number as it can not be devined. so far it's endless, like rthe number pi. but a billion is.
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Old 05-26-2012, 08:06 AM   #9
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in 32 years we all will be Chinese and gay
The problem is you actually believe that
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Old 05-26-2012, 11:02 AM   #10
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it's no number as it can not be devined. so far it's endless, like rthe number pi. but a billion is.
It is less than infinity so it is defined; it is not endless. Pi is irrational, but well defined.
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Old 05-26-2012, 11:19 AM   #11
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It is less than infinity so it is defined; it is not endless. Pi is irrational, but well defined.
Devined. De. vined. Learn to read, Will.
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Old 05-26-2012, 11:43 AM   #12
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Devined. De. vined. Learn to read, Will.
Ohhh... isn't that what they do to shrimp?

Diablo in a bit?
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Old 05-26-2012, 01:46 PM   #13
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A "billion" used to be, correctly, a million million but sadly the Americans stuffed this up as well and it's only a thousand million as the commonly accepted value.
Just as a trillion should be a million million million - rather than just a million million.
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Old 05-26-2012, 06:50 PM   #14
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Yep.
In dutch a "biljoen" is 1.000.000.000.000
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Old 05-26-2012, 10:10 PM   #15
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It is less than infinity so it is defined; it is not endless. Pi is irrational, but well defined.
It is endless like the number pi. The number pi is still on this day not completed.
You believe or think that it is less than infinity but you cannot prove otherwise untill the final number of the whole digit can be shown.
But I am definately not a mathemetics person, perhaps there are other ways to tell howmany cyfers graham's number or pi consists.. ?
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Old 05-26-2012, 10:20 PM   #16
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It is endless like the number pi. The number pi is still on this day not completed.
You believe or think that it is less than infinity but you cannot prove otherwise untill the final number of the whole digit can be shown.
But I am definately not a mathemetics person, perhaps there are other ways to tell howmany cyfers graham's number or pi consists.. ?
Check this guy out. Ladies and Gentlemen, Rudiger Gamm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHstyljzAXs
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Old 05-26-2012, 10:33 PM   #17
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It is endless like the number pi. The number pi is still on this day not completed.
Irrational and undefined are not the same thing. One definition of pi is You believe or think that it is less than infinity but you cannot prove otherwise untill the final number of the whole digit can be shown. The definition of infinity is a number bigger than every real number.

Dutch, both of these numbers are well-defined in the community. Irrational just means that you can not represent it completely using digits, but you can use an approximation that is good enough for practical purposes. Every modern car, building, space ship, radio, and most modern technology uses pi in its design. Graham's number is cool, but has no practical purpose.
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Old 05-27-2012, 07:47 PM   #18
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You tought me something, thanks.
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Old 05-27-2012, 08:03 PM   #19
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in 32 years we all will be Chinese and gay
Some of us already are!
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Old 05-27-2012, 10:27 PM   #20
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I didn't think you were Chinese?
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