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Googolplex, no, but based on jws' post, they are well on their way to a googol.

Googol = 10 ^ 100, Googolplex = 10 ^ googol.

They're over a quarter of the way there!

(And I am finding very hard not to type Google.)



They're over a quarter of the way there!

Only on a log scale. Which is what they're going to have to switch to pretty soon.


Technically, inflation is indeed an exponential process.

But there's no real need for me to take refuge in the word "technically" when we're talking about 231 million percent inflation. There's nothing technically exponential about that. (Sadly.)


Make it your home page and you won't have to keep typing it into the URL bar.




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