Martin Leg <mleg@arnet.com.ar> wrote:

> JES> Consider a sheet of paper, 0.0001 mm thick.
> JES> How many times do you have to fold the paper before the "stack"
> JES> have passed the Moon (aprox 380.000 km) ?
>
> Well, 380E3 / 0.0001E-3 = 3.8E12

    Yes, but a kilometer isn't the same as a meter, so it's:

        380E6 / 0.0001E-3 = 3.8E15

    -Andy, who corrected one piclist "off-by-a-factor-of-1000" error
     yesterday, corrected this one today, and is looking forward to
     another one tomorrow.  Sigh...

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