omarlyn wrote:
Yes, it is "Googol" (1 followed by 100 zeroes) and as you note, a "Googolplex" (1 followed by a googal of zeroes)
It is interesting to note that a googolplex cannot be written out "longhand." There aren't anywhere near a googol atoms in the entire universe. Therefore, even if every elementary particle in existence were to be made into ink and paper, the 'writer' would run out of both ink and paper long before the last ("googolth") zero.
Roy Pertchik wrote:
Wall Street has just been reminded of the TANSTAFL principal... "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
(Pretty much the only thing I remember from my economics class :-)
Tanstaafl (spelling counts for acronyms!) was coined by Robert Heinlein (or at least popularized in his novels).
Qwerty?
Since JBOD has been mentioned: RAID (Redundant Array [of] Inexpensive Disks).
DIS Ottawa wrote:
What I'd like to know is why some people don't use capitalization or punctuation and do use odd spellings such as "teh" for "the".
"teh" is a common typing error, usually having nothing to do with ability to order the letters. It is essentially a timing (coordination) error between left and right hands. Of course there are people with reading/writing disorders.
saturnkk wrote:
It is NOT an acronym unless it spells a pronounceable word.
Somebody read Wikipedia and thought it was accurate
An acronym does not have to be pronounceable, that misconception stems from the similarities with an acrostic. Acrostic poems have been around since the 16th century.
via PM...it's kinda blue. 
