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by cylon13 2404 days ago
They are close enough that the relationship between them is graspable to the human mind, if the numbers themselves are not. Take the unimaginable 10^77, put it in a box. Now imagine a thousand boxes. That's 10^80. Of course a thousand times an unimaginable number is astronomically bigger on a linear scale, but if you just look at the relationship between the two numbers it's imaginable.
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lol yeah - before posting I was trying to convince myself not to post, and what yous dais was exactly my counter "narrative".

But still; Between 10^3 and 10^77, that 77 OWNS