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 Minsky 
Some 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.
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