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Fewer than 100 people have been allowed inside Movile, a number comparable to those who have been to the Moon. BBC reporting is really kind of crappy. 12 peopl
by jgrahamc 11y ago
Fewer than 100 people have been allowed inside Movile, a number comparable to those who have been to the Moon.
BBC reporting is really kind of crappy. 12 people walked on the Moon; 22 people orbited the Moon.
- arbuge 11y agoTechnically 100 and 32 are comparable numbers.
- berekuk 11y agoTechnically all numbers are comparable.
- dexterdog 11y agoWhat about imaginary numbers?
- pmalynin 11y agoYou can still compare them, e.g two numbers could or couldn't be equal. Equality is a form of comparison
- jungans 11y agowouldn't this make all things comparable?
- taotao670 11y agoExcept apples and oranges apparently.
- DonHopkins 11y agoYou can compare apples and oranges alphabetically.
- wtetzner 11y agoAs far as I can tell, it's not that you can't compare apples and oranges, it's just often misleading.
- MichaelBurge 11y agoYou don't even have to do that: Just well-order the universe and use the resulting ordering for your less-than operator.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago1 != sqrt(-1). That's an example of a comparison between a real number and an imaginary number.
- wtbob 11y agoTechnically all nouns are comparable under equality.
- hghdfgv 11y agoTechnically incorrect: http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum-2.html http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum-2.html
- germanier 11y agoThat's a rather narrow definition of comparability. If nothing else said, one would understand the term with regards to the relation of any partially ordered set – not only the one implicitly defined on that page.
- scarmig 11y agoWould a tl;dr here be: Is BB(26) - BB(25) greater than or less than BB(25)?
- strictnein 11y agoGoogle didn't help me. What's BB(#)?
- betenoire 11y agoBusy Beaver
- startling 11y agoI think people are downvoting you because they're assuming you're not serious. :(
- gresrun 11y agoLink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#The_busy_beaver_function_.CE.A3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#The_busy_beaver_fu...
- ScottBurson 11y agoFun discussion to be found at: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
- madaxe_again 11y agoSo are e, π and googol.
- nkrisc 11y ago12, 22, and the number of people who have been in the cave are all fewer than 100. Same order of magnitude.
- raldi 11y agoAnd two more went around the moon but never entered orbit.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago??? Do you mean Apollo 13? It had three astronauts on board.
- raldi 11y agoYes, but Jim Lovell was making his second trip; he had previously orbited the moon as part of the Apollo 8 crew.
- bonzini 11y agoIt was 29 in 2010. Sounds like it's much smaller than 100.
- octagonal 11y ago33 people: 0.00000045810% of the earth's population 100 people: 0.00000134736% of the earth's population Seems fairly comparable to me.
- notJim 11y agoYes, because when humans think of groups of people, we usually think in terms of percentage of Earth's population. "How many people are coming over for dinner tonight?" "Oh, not too many, just about 2.8070175e-10%" "Ahh, so one chicken will do"
- webXL 11y agoAnd it's just a tad bit more expensive to get to the moon than this cave, and by tad, I mean it's probably more expensive than any other activity a single human being has ever done, so I'm not sure why they use this comparison.