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Reminds me of the number my son invented when he was 4. A killion. It's a number "so big, ya die."
by lubujackson 3y ago
Reminds me of the number my son invented when he was 4. A killion. It's a number "so big, ya die."
- Lichtso 3y agoNot as a number, but as a unit it actually exists. It is called a "mort" (from mortality). In that sense one mort is "so much, you'll die". Though, the commonly used scale is a mort * 10 ^ -6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
- seeknotfind 3y agoIt takes 9 million micromorts to kill the average cat.
- kccqzy 3y agoA great opportunity to begin teaching your son some set theory until he understands inaccessible cardinals!
- Arcorann 3y agoFunnily enough, there was a short story about the killion published in the New Yorker in 1982: "The killion, as every mathematician knows, is a number so big it can kill you." [1] [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1982/09/06/the-killion https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1982/09/06/the-killion
- xNeil 3y agoReincarnation, maybe?
- pharrington 3y agoa true mathematician in the making
- tnecniv 3y agoWait until he learns about “Killing fields” which are vector fields whose flow preserves distance and named after Wilhelm Killing