Count to a million

[lomk 20,666]

251767

 

I'm thinking of these SI prefixes we're using nowadays now that there's an implementation for them. At one point, the only one we really used was kilo- or 1,000. But now that computers are getting faster and more capable, we've expanded our SI vocabulary to the point that tera- is commonplace. My desktop has 1.6 terabytes of storage. Imagine if we used those prefixes in other applications. 

 

Like distance.

 

A meter is pretty easy to wrap your mind around: the rest of the world knows it, but for you fellow American types, it's about 40 inches - right over a yard or 3 feet. A kilometer is pretty easy to wrap your mind around too - just over a half a mile. 

 

What about a megameter? 1,000 kilometers. That would be like driving from Washington, DC to Bangor, Maine. From Salt Lake City to Albuquerque. From Los Angeles to Sacramento. Or From Amarillo to the Mexican Border at the Gulf of Mexico. For you, Rising, that's a drive all the way to Geneva.

 

A gigameter? 1,000 megameters or 1,000,000 kilometers. At the equator, the earth is 40,008 kilometers. So we'll call it 40 megameters. A string one gigameter long would be enough to wrap around the planet at the equator twenty-five times.

 

A terameter? 1,000 gigameters/1,000,000 megameters/1 billion kilometers. That is a round trip from the earth to the sun........

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...

...

three times. And that's still only 90% of it. You'd make it 2/3 of the way back to the sun before you complete your terameter run. 

 

Aren't numbers aweseome?

Edited February 14, 2015 by Space Woona

[BastementSparkle 20,334]

251768

 

Woona, you're making my brain burn with all your smartness.

 

 Stahp, Woona, Stahp.

[lomk 20,666]

251,769

 

I can't help it Base I'm an accountant! I work with numbers all day

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.***

[BastementSparkle 20,334]

251771

 

Math was always my worst class.

[long gone 8,929]

251772

 

Gentlemen?

[BastementSparkle 20,334]

251773

 

Daring?

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.774

[Overdrive 5,366]

251###

 

I bought what's normally a $300+ plushie for $110, and it's taking forever to get here.

 

Also:

My damn iPhone flipped the picture again.

Edited February 14, 2015 by Overdrive

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

251776

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.***

[lomk 20,666]

251778

251772

 

Gentlemen?

Shall we?

 

[long gone 8,929]

251779

251778

Shall we?

 

But of course!

 

[lomk 20,666]

251,780

 

Spylight Sparkle 

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.781

[BastementSparkle 20,334]

251782

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.783

[Overdrive 5,366]

251###

[~Flash Brush~ 313]

251.784 Yup, I think this is the right number

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.786

 

welcome here  Brush^^

[Overdrive 5,366]

251787

 

No, you're just a bit off.

Edited February 14, 2015 by Overdrive

[Pastel 7,630]

A million is much cooler than a hundred

 

251788

Edited February 14, 2015 by Blobulle

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

251788

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,305]

251.***

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

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