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| Mark Jackson to Lynn McGuire |
| Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula |
| 28 Jan 26 16:09:32 |
XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips From: mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu On 1/28/2026 3:47 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > xkcd: Chemical Formula > https://www.xkcd.com/3200/ > > I think that Randall is off by a few million orders of magnitude. Looks defensible to me, and certainly not off by a factor of 10^(10^6). Estimates of the total number of atoms in the universe generally fall in the 10^78 to 10^82 range. -- Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/ I'd rather find boring things interesting than find interesting things boring. - Frazz (Jef Mallett) --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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