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   Message 447,578 of 448,027   
   Lynn McGuire to Mark Jackson   
   Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula   
   28 Jan 26 19:07:12   
   
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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/28/2026 3:09 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   How can you know the number of atoms in this universe if you do not know   
   the number of stars in the Milky Way or the number of galaxies in the   
   universe ?   
      
   Lynn   
      
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