Quote of the day - economical numbers

April 4th, 2009 by eyal | Filed under economics. | Print This Post Print This Post

Richard Feynman: There are 10^11 stars…

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Richard Feynman

US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)

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