From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 06:53:50 MDT
Paul Hughes wrote:
> > $1
>
> Buy a good cup of coffee to help finish answering the rest of these
> questions.
>
> $10
>
> Buy a good paperback on how to manage large sums of money.
> [...]
Paul, up until the $1,000 mark you're really thinking but you missed
something important - you didn't give any money to the judge, therefore I've
rated you poorly. Let this be a lesson!
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > $1 Quadrillion
> [...]
> > $1 Pentillion
> That's "quadrillion".
Eh?
> > $1 Hexillion
> That's "sextillion"
> > $1 Ninthillion
> That's "nonillion"
You may be right, I'm basing this on an old piece of text-to-voice software
that came with the original Sound Blaster. (It use to say "hexillion" and
"ninthillion", although "sextillion" and "nonillion" sounds more
consistent.)
BM
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