From: utzoo!decvax!cca!MINSKY@MIT-OZ@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.space Title: Billions Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3392 Posted: Tue Sep 21 09:21:16 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 03:21:41 1982 From: Marvin MinskySome child was tellig me about something large and said "it is a hundred billion thousand million billion billion" miles long. I said "it would be larger if you say "a billion billion billion billion billion billion". The child said "it sounds larger the first way". More variety, I suppose. -------