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Tue Jul 2 09:00:00 PDT 2002

Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:29:10, Robert Brown wrote:

>Some useful conversions:
>
>   2^10 = 1024 \approx 1000 (10^3) (kilo)
>   2^20 = 1024*1023 \approx 10^6 (mega)
>   2^30 \approx 10^9 (giga)
>   2^40 \approx 10^12 (tera)

And for completeness:

    2^50 \approx 10^15 (peta)
    2^60 \approx 10^18 (exa)
    2^70 \approx 10^21 (zeta)
    2^80 \approx 10^24 (yota)
    2^90 \approx 10^27 (alota)

How many gluons are there in the universe Robert?

;-)

rbw