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Old 07-24-2003, 07:38 PM
cferejohn cferejohn is offline
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Default Re: Here\'s some perspective

If he had gotten to the 64th square, the mass of rice would have been so great it'd have caved in on itself and then caused a black hole...LOL - exponential and factored numbers get big REALLY fast

I call hyperbole. 2^64th = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 grains of rice. Figuring 10 milligrams per grain, that's 184,467,440,737,095,516 kilograms. The weight of the earth is roughly 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilos, so in fact a black hole is really quite out of the question.

Still a lot of rice though.
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