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AES Announced as Federal Standard
chekhov writes: "Today NIST has finally announced AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) as a Federal Standard after 4 years of development. See the press release. AES is the replacement of DES and is expected to be used in financial systems and secure networks for up to 20 years. More information on the AES homepage."
Naw. Don't need it. They'll just charge anyone using it that they don't like under the new anti-terrorism crap. Saves a ton of cycles.
Actually, it's "googol". Your spelling has been corrupted by Corporate America.
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The word you're looking for is "googol". Your spelling has been corrupted by Corporate America.
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grillion == 10^42?
-ck
You're crazy. I'd take that bet any day.
I thought I'd go for a bit of variety. ;-)
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name with number of zeros
thousand 3
million 6
billion 9
trillion 12
quadrillion 15
quintillon 18
sextillion 21
septillion 24
octillion 27
nonillion 30
decillion 33
undecillion 36
duodecillion 39
tredecillion 42
quattuordecillion 45
quindecillion 48
sexdecillion 51
septdecillion 54
octdecillion 57
novendecillion 60
vigintillion 63
the names stop here (unless something's
changed since I learned this in middle school) except for google and googleplex.
Of course, you can use these to form bigger numers, like 10^126 is a vigintillion vigintillions.
Scrabble letters. I threw the vowels back though.
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden