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pinball1970 reacted to AlexB23's post in the thread High School A Mind-Boggling Number Comparison with
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. That's 20 orders of magnitude bigger than a googol -
pinball1970 replied to the thread High School A Mind-Boggling Number Comparison.Tiny! How about the estimated number of games of chess? 10^120 that is more than the number of stars 10^23 in the observable universe...
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pinball1970 reacted to pines-demon's post in the thread Erdos, the Hungarians And other scientists of the era with
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I recently learned about this one: From: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html -
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.My search suggests it Harding with Einstein in the US 1921 not Manchester. Never mind.
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pinball1970 posted the thread History Einstein's visit to Manchester in 1921 in Art, History, and Linguistics.I found out a little bit about Einstein recently regarding his trip to Manchester June 9th 1921. I was surprised to find out that he...
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pinball1970 reacted to WWGD's post in the thread Erdos, the Hungarians And other scientists of the era with Like.
IIRC, he said "A Mathematician is a machine to turn coffee into theorems".
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pinball1970 replied to the thread The word "people" - how to spell and pronounce?.Pee-pull. I'm NW UK and was thinking of how a Southerner might say it differently. The Chorus of Park life is very south, Blur. It's...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.There was method in the madness. Einstein came to Manchester in 1921 to give a lecture on Relativity and the University gave him an...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.Oxford Rd Manchester. There is so much history for me in just a few miles on this road. Medical building and Holy name on the left...
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Some critters at the Western North Carolina Nature Center in Asheville last weekend: The scene above made me think of the frequent...
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Pattaya kite festival. On schedule with the South Westerlies.
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.Wow. Who needs colour when you have that to work with?
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Got some snow last night in the northern Virginia area.
