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Old 02-04-2008, 11:12 AM   #1
Flint
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How do you derive this number?
I took 8.06581751709439 e+67, copy/pasted 6.7 lines of ten groups of ",000" then put commas in the original figure, like this "8,065,817,517,094,39" and then pasted these on top of the zeros so that it was the same length. Oh, I left the "8," on a serarate line, because it was before the decimal.

What did I do wrong? Oh. I did 67 groups of ",000" instead of just zeros.
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:14 AM   #2
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What did I do wrong?
Nothing. You're crazy.
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