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Here is my helpful reference page for big numbers. I love big numbers. I'm actually working on a site right now which will help people to visualize big numbers. I can't give out the url yet because it'll be another month or two before it's ready to be seen. But, it'll have many fun options like Cow Stacking and Hamster Canyon.

Cow stacking is where you select cow as the animal and from earth to moon as the place and you'll see a graphic of cows being stacked to the moon and the number of cows which would be required to complete that stack.

Hamster Canyon will be where you select a hamster and the Grand Canyon and you'll see a picture of the Grand Canyon filled with hamsters and a number that indicates the total number of hamsters required to fill the canyon.

Yotta is the largest metric prefix and it's the next one after Zetta, so it looks like the standards people are going to have to get together to name some more prefixes.

I took the time to actually put the data that you linked to into a spreadsheet and then calculated the correlation coefficient. It turned out to be -0.01.

Assuming those data sets actually coincide time-wise, that appears to mean that there's no simple link between those two values. I wouldn't necessarily expect a direct causal link given the many variables involved in unemployment, but I'm surprised that there's no correlation at all.

I'd be interested in looking at that correlation over time. For instance, if we run these numbers every year for the last hundred years, is there ever a correlation? Perhaps the correlation is low during certain periods of time (perhaps when the economy is good) while it is much higher in others (perhaps when the economy is bad).

If anyone else wants to run the numbers, you can view them at: UnemploymentMinWage

I tried pasting them into this message, but the spam filter wouldn't let it through.

You want to meet the answer?

Unfortunately, the cost of the case precludes any expenditures on actual furniture, so an old folding card table must be used to support a 70 pound monitor. It visibly sags but the threat of a catastrophic collapse keeps life interesting.

Glad to see you can copy+paste :)
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Drum roll please. On May 29, 2003, I entered a new phase of PC ownership. That was the day that my Chenbro SR101 21 bay server case arrived. Perhaps you didn't hear me. I said it was a 21 bay case! It's 14.5" wide and 25" tall! (The 25" includes the caster wheels.) It's a monster and unless you're one of the lucky few who own a case like this, it would most likely eat your case for an after dinner snack!

It's a masterpiece of case design! There are holders for wires in it to reduce clutter. It's like running a network inside the PC.

It has spaces for up to 15 fans.

It has caster wheels.

The motherboard is on a removable platter so I was able to just take the platter out and put the motherboard on it instead of having to put it into the case directly.

It has 12 external 5.25" bays and 8 internal 3.5" bays and 1 external 3.5" bay for the floppy drive.

The floppy drive bay has a removable platter so you can attach the drive to it and then attach the platter to the case.

The case comes with rails for the 5.25" bays. You attach the rails to each 5.25" device (CDROM, removable hard drive, etc.) and you can just slide the device into the bay and it snaps in place. You just squeeze the sides to pull them back out. There's no need to have to screw each one in and out when you want to move them around!

There's room in the back for 3 power supplies (I have 2 installed right now) and it's possible attach power supplies into the 5.25" bays if desired which theoretically means you could have 7 power supplies in it, but you wouldn't have much room left over for anything else.

The back, sides, top, and front panels are all removable, so if I want to I can remove them and have them painted or even paint them myself! (I was thinking of maybe having the entire thing painted shiny dark black with 1 big yellow pacman on each side.) I wonder if they sell spoilers for PC cases... Actually, I think I may have no choice but to add neon lights to it.

As a result, most of the people at my company are going to go see the movie so that they can learn where my last name came from.

It will be freaking embarressing if they all go and then come back saying that the movie sucked! I couldn't bring myself to read the article because I'm going to go see it no matter what (I'll be the one at the San Francisco Metreon wearing a bathrobe with a towel embroidered with "42" on it).

There's plenty of names for large numbers here.

We need some good old-fashioned hyperinflation to help teach people about numbers with lots of zeroes.