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Subject: Re: NSA advertisment
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 16:33:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 16:33:09 1987
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Keywords: Counting at 1E90 hz
Summary: 1E90 != 1**90

In article <6200@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, newton2@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> Gee, even *I* can count at 1E90 hz, and "exhaustion" is the proper
> term for the result of trying to count even to 10E6 at that rate.
> 
> doug maisel

No you can't 1E90 = 1.0 * (10 ** 90) and not 1 ** 90.  Or have you
forgotten the scientific notation :-)?