Maths question

[ajaxfetish]

If the universe was a sphere of water with a radius of about 15 billion light years, weighing 1000kgs per cubic meter, I estimate that it would contain something in the order of 1 x 10^101 molecules of water.

2 x 10^3010 is an absurb number, so what is the point in knowing it?

Well, if you were adding up how many 1/2^10000ths of an inch there are in an inch, the number would definitely come in handy. 10^101 just wouldn't cut it.

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[Papewaio]

Considering a planck length is approximately 2 x 10^-31 metres... and the planck length is close to what we think is the smallest distance that we can measure with any certainty...

In other words below that order of magnitude we cannot measure with any accuracy.

[Ironside]

Better yet, take the integral of f(x) = x^2 for the interval [0, 2^10000].

What does your calculator say about that?

It says 2,646967839710986774710839276339*10^9030
And I was using my own calculator not the windows version (except to get all the decimals in the end, can "only" get 10 on my own calc).

BTW the windows calculator can handle numbers up to something in between 10^43429 and 10^43430.
If 10^3010 is insanely big, what's 10^43429 then?

[aw89]

Insanely big + 40419

[Crazed Rabbit]

Wow. That is a big number. My calc (A high-end 3d graphing calculator) will only do powers of 2 up to 3321.9280948873999999. Trying to do 2 to the power of 3321.9280948874 will give me infinity.

Crazed Rabbit