You could share that credit claim around and we all get something big.

And I will like to see if it validates and what the other will claim.

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Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope.

Welll the OP's Wingman has a turnaround time of 8.75 days... plenty of time for the wildest speculations, guessings and conspiracy theories... :-)

Andy

I hope that credit comes through.

Maybe Nez will make a 2nd post, like:

Sh......... I aint #1 and won’t be for 50 years???

I hope that credit comes through.

Maybe Nez will make a 2nd post, like:

Sh......... I aint #1 and won’t be for 50 years???

It wasn't NEZ who wrote that extract, just someone paraphrasing what he might say
(with a slight error of scale!) Message was deleted somehow while I responded, and
I didn't quote the other couple of lines.

Yes, I've noticed that President Bush doesn't know how to pronounce "nuclear". He pronounces it "nucyular". A very minor nitpick.

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etc...
no zillions!

"When I was young" I heard that 'Zillion' was 10^100 (10E100).

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1,000,000 million
1,000,000,000 billion
1,000,000,000,000 trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hexillion

This should be “sextillion”. (In the obsolescent—albeit IMO more logical—British/European style, it would be “thousand trillion”.)

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 heptillion

“Septillion” (Brit. “quadrillion”). Hex- and hept- are Greek prefixes, while these words are based on Latin.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 octillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 nonillion

(Brit. “quintillion”.)

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 decillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 unodecillion

“Undecillion” (Brit. “sextillion”).

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 duodecillion

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"When I was young" I heard that 'Zillion' was 10^100 (10E100).

That’s properly called a “googol”, supposedly named by a mathematician’s small child or grandchild. It’s not a very practical number, considering that it’s a couple dozen orders of magnitude larger than the number of subatomic particles in the observable universe …

That’s properly called a “googol”...

Well, yeah; as I found out later. But don't you have certain words or phrases heard/overheard in childhood that you use and reuse and think of at the Original Word? For me/us, Zillion is "The Original" 10^100. (At least for me, though, there 's a number attached to the word.)

supposedly named by a mathematician’s small child or grandchild

Speaking of childhood...

It’s not a very practical number, considering that it’s a couple dozen orders of magnitude larger than the number of subatomic particles in the observable universe …

I can't remember it at the moment, especially since it 'reportedly' involves Buddhist concepts, and I was raised Baptist/Pentacostal, but there are certain words for periods of time that no 'Human' or civilization can expect to experience. There are also a "large" number of words involving 'non-physical' events, such as "Dream", "Idea", "Liberty", and (strictly speaking) "Male"/"Female". (Point out any language where "Male" is a cross-language 'usable' word.)
For the most part, languages are- I've heard- useful in relaying weather and crop information. Anything else is a bonus- or distraction.

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etc...
no zillions!

"When I was young" I heard that 'Zillion' was 10^100 (10E100).

Wasn't it "zentillion"? I can remember (from my childhood of course :-)) that this was it's name... makes even more sense, since it is a word combination from "cento" (equals hundred in italian/latin(?) language) and "million"...

Andy

That is right, 17 followed by 'quadtrillon' twice. A quadtrillion has 5 sets of three numbers. Our number is 17, followed by ten sets of three numbers.

Although it might be a european 'quadtrillon'.

No - quadtrillion is a misspelling for quadrillion.

17,009,243,529,295,200,565,037,795,115,008 is ~17 nonillion.

1,000,000 million
1,000,000,000 billion
1,000,000,000,000 trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hexillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 heptillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 octillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 nonillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 decillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 unodecillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 duodecillion
etc...
no zillions!

See the following pages for more on these "number names":

http://www.sizes.com/numbers/big_numName.htm
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html
http://g42.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BigNumbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintillion

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Sir Arthur C Clarke 1917-2008

etc...
no zillions!

"When I was young" I heard that 'Zillion' was 10^100 (10E100).

Wasn't it "zentillion"? I can remember (from my childhood of course :-)) that this was it's name... makes even more sense, since it is a word combination from "cento" (equals hundred in italian/latin(?) language) and "million"...

Andy

Given: 'Googol' is a word that represents 10e100
Given: FireFox Spell-check suggests "Gogol" for Googol.
Given: 'Zillion' is a word heard during my childhood.

What would an Italian word source matter to a Midwest (USA) kid in the early 1980's?

As an aside/Given: I'm 27 as of 12/2006. Early childhood, as I'm applying it to this thread and post is "1980-1986/1987".

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Hard to remember that far back but I seem to remember using bazillion as a number so large it was unimaginable. Or was it gazillion?

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Hard to remember that far back but I seem to remember using bazillion as a number so large it was unimaginable. Or was it gazillion?

Both are in use, as emphatic or exaggerated forms of “zillion” I guess. But none of these terms refers to any precise number.

Brazilian?

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

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Keep on crunching, all...
SETI@Home Forever!

___Tklop (Step-Founder, U.S. Air Force team)

Just trying to keep this alive. Your wingman hasn't made contact in 4 days. I certainly would like to see the outcome of this.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Brazilian?

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

That would reflect about 190,000,000

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That would reflect about 190,000,000

What’s the albedo of a Brazilian?

Yup something amiss, unless you expected a whole LOTTA credit(1.7 e31)for that wu. Here's what the WU ID looks like:

625643903 3617983 3 Oct 2007 10:50:53 UTC 25 Nov 2007 0:46:27 UTC In Progress Unknown New --- --- ---
625643902 3706756 3 Oct 2007 3:32:29 UTC 4 Oct 2007 4:48:13 UTC Over Success Done 20,100.86 17,009,243,529,295,200,565,037,795,115,008 pending


Hope you don't see many more of those. the bold part is your "claimed credit".

or, perhaps if you actually were granted that amount, you'd be the all time high score in any boinc project. LOL

I want the computer that will do 5156486459407385200000000000000000000000000 flops in 20,100 seconds.

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Boinc Button Abuser In Training >My Shrubbers<

0.407697 from the Sandiego is close enough for me - I think we can discount my bug theory. I haven't been logging recently (since I posted the Core 2 speed comparisons) - been concentrating on getting the Einstein S5R2 run finished off, and trying to work out whether S5R3 satisfies cross-project credit parity.

@Richard,

You have a PM.

F.