Friday, January 30, 2015

BIG numbers

There's no easy way to wrap our minds around the concept of an extremely large number. When pondering the question of how many single blades of grass are residing on our large campus, my mind cannot begin to process the vast amount, and that is why we have come up with different ways to comprehend the thought of an extremely large integer. The use of exponents in mathematics has opened up a new world of infinitely large numbers.
One way to think of these humongous numbers is to think of the vast number of stars in the sky when you look up on a clear night. The number of stars in the universe is such a large number that it directly correlates to the exponential numbers of which we have been learning. The seemingly infinite amount of stars comes close to the absolutely infinite quantity of numbers.