Subject: Re: Google calculator, largest values, beer
To: Lindgren, Jon <Jon.Lindgren@gs.com>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: regional-nyc
Date: 10/13/2003 17:43:53
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Lindgren, Jon wrote:

>Someone, over beers of yore, metioned the largest value they could get out
>of the google calculator (something to do with the surface area of something
>in barns).  What was it?  What expression was used to generate it?

Well, we can bound the problem pretty easily:

100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
cubic yottameter in cubic yoctometers

works, but the addition of a single zero causes a failure.

Anyone want to partition those bounds and come back with a more exact
figure?  :-)

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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