kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (11/27/84)
[If a billion bugs can eat a billion lines in a billion days, ...]
How about: A billion seconds is about 32 years.
Or: A billion millimeters is about 625 miles (distance between New
York and Detroit?)
Given the impending (?) conversion to metric, I and some friends have proposed
the sagan as a metric unit of amount. Its value in the English system would
be billions and billions. Examples of its use would be:
McDonalds - Over 1 sagan served.
A microsagan of people attended the rock festival.
Half a millisagan [millions as opposed to millions and millions] of Americans
had decided on for whom they would vote before the first debate.
A prominent astronomer estimates that there are 4 sagan [billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and
billions] stars in the sky.
Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)
--why did I leave my address? Fewer than a nanosagan will respond!