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Carl Sagan on atoms, the googol, and the googolplex

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Atoms, the googol, and the googolplex. Carl Sagan explains how numbers such as one-thousand, one-million, one-billion, and so are expressed in scientific notation. The googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. This clip comes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode 9, "The Lives of the Stars."

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  • if you wish to make an apple pie from sctatch, you must first, invent the universe.

    FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • Crumbly but good.

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  • @murheed1 My calculator just pukes up an error message.

  • Sophisticated comment: Carl Sagan, prophet of the cosmos...

    Retarded comment: DURR, G00G3L 1S S0 4WS3M!!!

  • Googolplex is to Grahams number as an atom is to the universe. If you want to see a truly big number, search "a taste of infinity" on youtube. Grahams number will blow your mind

  • this fuckin prick confuses you, it is 10 to the power of 1 followed by 100 zeros.

  • googol = 10^100 which is 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­00000000000

    googolplex = 10^100000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­00000000000000 which is if you try to calculate of any calculator it cant do it will give infinity as an answer

  • As I started watching this video, I got hungry

  • @Jebus495 :D

  • If you wish to make a pizza from sctach. You must first invent the stone oven.

  • Why does the audio lag, FFS?

  • Why didn't he choose, say, a meatloaf, or a slice of bread to cut? Hmmm. Anyhoo, Sagan was awesome - not even his lack of pie-cutting prowess can detract from his genius.

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