How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...
Visualising 1 × 10 90 as the number of particles in the universe was seen as a sort of upper limit for all practical purposes for numbers(9 August, p 28). Why bother with infinity? I think we are ...