Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!kaufman From: kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: The Mr. Billions Show Message-ID: <10600184@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 15:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.10600184 Posted: Tue Nov 27 15:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 02:44:37 EST Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcs:10600184:000:960 Nf-From: uiucdcs!kaufman Nov 27 14:56:00 1984 [If a billion bugs can eat a billion lines in a billion days, ...] How about: A billion seconds is about 32 years. Or: A billion millimeters is about 625 miles (distance between New York and Detroit?) Given the impending (?) conversion to metric, I and some friends have proposed the sagan as a metric unit of amount. Its value in the English system would be billions and billions. Examples of its use would be: McDonalds - Over 1 sagan served. A microsagan of people attended the rock festival. Half a millisagan [millions as opposed to millions and millions] of Americans had decided on for whom they would vote before the first debate. A prominent astronomer estimates that there are 4 sagan [billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions] stars in the sky. Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) --why did I leave my address? Fewer than a nanosagan will respond!