A Conversation for Googol - an Unimaginably Large Number

Wow, that are many

Post 1

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

lurking the Guide
"I have found some _older_ entries discribing Googol
< A230275 >
< A315460 >
< A1068914 >"


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Post 2

Gnomon - time to move on

Thanks, Traveller. Those are unedited ones, which the authors never got around to putting into the Edited Guide. The Edited Guide is the one that you get to by following the Life, The Universe and Everything links from the Front Page.


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Post 3

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit on his head
"I know, I just had to spoil the entry less then a minute after editing with this prepared list of previous 'attempts'. "


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Post 4

Gnomon - time to move on

smiley - biggrin


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Post 5

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit in his hand
"I think we are just waiting for the writers block to start dumping some entries into the peerpool.

Any idea when it will be scheduled?"


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Post 6

Gnomon - time to move on

Sorry, I didn't understand that at all.smiley - erm


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Post 7

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time, smiley - tit on his head, Nephew tapping on five consoles, lurking twohundred fifty five pipes
"Well, we produce some two entries a day, hardly managing to enter them.
Dumping some into the peer review pool would increase the refurbishing load for 'older' entries, completely blocking any productivity.
As long as the new ideas keep bubbling over we have no time left to get blocked by such. Running days of fourty two hours is a tough job you know."


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Post 8

Gnomon - time to move on

Traveller, I still don't know what you are saying.

>>Well, we produce some two entries a day
OK - two or three new entries are published on the Front Page each day

>>hardly managing to enter them.
What does this mean?

>>Dumping some into the peer review pool
What?

>>would increase the refurbishing load for 'older' entries
What?

>>completely blocking any productivity.
What?

>>As long as the new ideas keep bubbling over we have no time left to get blocked by such.
What?

>>Running days of fourty two hours is a tough job you know."
I presume you mean you are very busy.

smiley - smiley


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Post 9

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

<./>MA228046?type=2&show=500</.>


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Post 10

Gnomon - time to move on

Ah, I begin to understand. WHen you say "we", you mean "I". You're talking about your own entries. That's a lot of entries. I only have about 100 unedited ones, and I tend to work on five or six at a time, preparing them for Peer Review.


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Post 11

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit on his head
"Ok, after selection some hundred seem to be editable (sounds like consuming them), though I would not like the others to have left out.
Nb the 'we' is entirely BBC as they addres you as they, disguising the gender."


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Post 12

Gnomon - time to move on

But "I" would also disguise the gender.


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Post 13

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Susan Winkle aka Traveller in Time Susan Winkle aka smiley - tit on her head
"
We are as many as we like
We are as nuts as possible
We are 'Traveller in Time'
We are not 'Traveller in Time'
We refuse to sign out
We use sp<./>info</.>il to wrap any occasion
We know tomorrow as we are today
But we will stay on yesterday
"


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Post 14

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit on his head
"Did I mention < A2171305 >?"


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Post 15

Gnomon - time to move on

It's wrong, though. Milliard was never used in the British system. The term was "thousand million".


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Post 16

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Sure ? smiley - rofl (that happens rarely)








I knew


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Post 17

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit counting his hairs
"I added '1' I guess."


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