What are these numbers?

[kokopelli]

2 x 10²²  = ?????

 

1  =    ?????

 

 

I cribbed this info from post on another forum; it is all open to interpretation.

 

First right answer (if there is a right answer) gets a 

 

[Guest]

2 x 10²²  = 2 x 10²²

 

1  =  1

[kokopelli]

A red star for z909.

 

 

 

[Bob]

Obvious answer but perhaps there could be more than one such as:

 

(1)  As you notice, there are two answers and, all things being equal, the second answer is one as one always equals itself.  The question is "one of what?"

 

(2)  Extrapolating this to the scene in Thailand, many boybars have those lighted and spinning disco balls, such items spinning at 1/(2 x 10 to the 22nd power) of the speed of light.  Koko, having made his decision to invite #7 back to the hotel for a discussion of physics, pulls out his wallet to pay the mamasan the off fee.  Not surprisingly, the wallet is rather wide in girth, stuffed with many baht.  With that information, one can deduce that the answer to the first equation is the time (in inverse milliseconds) it takes for the light (reflected off the spinning disco ball) to go from Koko's stuffed wallet to glint off the eye of #7.  And, although not asked in this question, one could deduce that it would only take one additional millisecond for #7 to decide how he would add to the GDP of Thailand by spending some of that treasure.

 

(3)  As to the answer to equation number two, the answer must be one "day" (that being the time required to wipe the smile off of Koko's face following his "discussion of physics" with #7). 

[kokopelli]

Very warm, Bob!  Your reward is:

 

 

 

No, 1 is not 1 day.

 

1 = 

 

 

 

[Bob]

I actually rather enjoyed that.  Reminded me of college and grad school days where I would go to exams and write down a load of convoluted tripe that normally made the professors think that I had an ounce of brains.  They were wrong. 

[kokopelli]

Ok, the answer is 2 x 10²²  = an estimate of the number of stars in the Universe.

 

1 = Earth = the only one place in the Universe where intelligent life exists.

 

This was an extrapolation/interpretation/exaggeration I made as a result of watching a TV show on the Hubble Telescope and reading a post on Sawatdeenetwork.com  http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/physics-marches-inexorably-backwards-t32508.html.

 

That post morphed into a discussion of the Galaxy and Universe  including  an article by a Prof. Brian Cox who postulated that life on Earth is unique in the Galaxy (and maybe Universe) and some posters seemed to agree while others disagreed.

 

Too esoteric?

 

[Bob]

Nah, not too esoteric.  Actually just watched a show about the Hubble program and telescope (probably the same one you watched).  In fact, fascinating.  And, of course, the Hubble photographs are simply awesome.

 

I was actually thinking you were making a slight mistake with your numbers and you meant 10 to the 21st power....a sextillion.....

[vinapu]

10 to the 21st power....a sextillion.....

sexytillion?

[kokopelli]

 

 

I was actually thinking you were making a slight mistake with your numbers and you meant 10 to the 21st power....a sextillion.....

I did make a mistake!  The number was supposed to be 22 zeros not 10 to 22nd power which would be 23 zeros. But other estimates vary by a factor of 10 to 100.

 

But of all those million, billions and tillions Earth is the only one with sex.

[Bob]

Hmmmm.....I'm confused again.  10 to the first power is ten (i.e., one zero), 10 to the 2nd power is 100 (2 zeroes), 10 to the 3rd power would be 1000 (3 zeroes), and 10 to the 22nd power would have, yup, 22 zeroes.  Although I must admit that my brain hurt a bit trying to figure that out.

 

So, Koko, you gotta get your numbers straight (come to think of it, are there gay numbers?).  Cause those of us with an abacus can only count this high so many times without getting blisters.

[kokopelli]

Yes, Bob, you are correct. 10 to 22nd power is 1 followed by 22 zeros

 

But did you know who first used the zero (0) ? There is some sort of archaeologist who travels the world looking for the first use of Zero in/on ancient records.

[Bob]

Okay, you made me look up the derivation of "zero."  Apparently, it's from the French "zero" which was from the Italian contraction  from the Venetian word which was from an Arabic word which was from god only knows where, all of which mean zero, naught, nil, or some concept close to that.

 

Apparently the first name "Zero" was created by Sam Mostel's press agent.  Not exactly a confidence builder, huh?  I only checked that out to see if he should blame his inferiority complex on his parents. 

[kokopelli]

The first use of zero, 0, was found on an inscription at Angkor Wat about 683 AD.  

 

 

The number 605 in Khmer numerals, from the Sambor inscriptions in AD 683. The earliest known material use of zero as a decimal figure.