Scientists discovered remarkably preserved dinosaur-era bird wings trapped inside amber for nearly 100,000,000 years, with feathers and tissue still visible

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And still it doesn't really, considering the exponential scale used for writing down numbers.

The only way that would really give a proper sense of scale is the good old tally list. But with that it would harldy be possible to count up to 100 million.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nonsense, we can crowd source this. Look, I'll start:

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We could write a bot to do this.

How many bits have been sent over the internet? Probably more than that measly 100 billion.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We only got to three, and someone immediately jumps in and tries to AI the whole thing. This here is our entire problem.

[–] Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

4 lines of python is now AI?

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

PrintF ("|")
Repeat (printf, 100000000)

[–] username_1@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

What's the problem? 100M digits even in worst case Unicode would be less than 1GiB. Totally doable in the modern world.