how would you describe e186

[teamfresh]

I have rendered my latest deep zoom hunting for fossils.

The final magnification is e186
but how can I convey such a large number to my subscribers?

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't think you can visualize such numbers at all. It is possibly bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

 

[Fizyk]

The number of atoms in the Universe is estimated to be 10^80. So even if you exchanged every atom in the Universe for another Universe like ours, the total number of atoms in such a construction would still be about a billion billions billions times less than 10^186

(I hope my assumption that e186 meant 10^186 was right.)

 

[Jarvitä]

Put it this way: If you took a proton, and magnified it by 1e186, the entire universe would be really, incredibly, negligibly small next to it. Tinier than anything you could possibly imagine.

That's the best I could come up with. You're really dealing with quantities most people are incapable of comprehending here. But comparisons like this are just a keyword, they can be just as meaningless if you can't imagine what a "proton" or "size of the universe" implies. I have a very poor grasp of any quantity beyond 1e|9| myself - that's the approximate border where numbers stop being intuitive quantities and turn into abstract concepts.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Past "proton magnified to the size of the universe", which I believe is e42, I have trouble thinking of anything to say as well.
Within that proton is a universe and within that, every proton is a universe, and within THAT, every proton is a universe. Even then I think that falls short of equaling e186!

 

[Rtyh-12]

Tell them it's 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, and even though they'll definitely not be able to visualize that, they would likely understand that it's impossible.

Edit: BTW, how long did that take to render?

 

[n72.75]

Watch the video up to the nine minute mark and than pause it thereabouts, it is the most trippy, vertigo inducing thing I've done in a while.

 

[Spacethingy]

Isn't e^186

2.718......^186, you know, as in.... e log thingamajig?

 

[Urwumpe]

Isn't e^186

2.718......^186, you know, as in.... e log thingamajig?

Yes, [math]e^x[/math] - but not 1E186, that is usually interpreted as [math]1 \cdot 10^{186}[/math] (More accurate would be [math]1 \cdot 2^{186}[/math], but that is a pretty unpopular convention, powers of ten would then be written as 1D186).

 

[Sunhillow]

This is great! And a wonderful choice of hynotic music

What software did you use? I don't think Xaos can go this deep

 

[insane_alien]

quick question, but how do you know exactly to zoom in on to get interesting effects. it seems to me that the probability of hitting a blank area would rise to 1 upon increasing zoom factors unless you used an adapting target where it looks for edges near where it is currently targetting and slightly and continuously adjusts the focus.

am I right or is it some mathematical wizardry?

 

[PeriapsisPrograde]

I'd describe it as;
one trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion billion.

Holy crap. That's huge. :blink: