Re: $N, a test of imagination

Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:53:50 +0100

Paul Hughes wrote:

> > $1
>
> Buy a good cup of coffee to help finish answering the rest of these
> questions.
>
> $10
>
> Buy a good paperback on how to manage large sums of money.
> [...]

Paul, up until the $1,000 mark you're really thinking but you missed something important - you didn't give any money to the judge, therefore I've rated you poorly. Let this be a lesson!

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> > $1 Quadrillion
> [...]
> > $1 Pentillion
> That's "quadrillion".

Eh?

> > $1 Hexillion
> That's "sextillion"

> > $1 Ninthillion
> That's "nonillion"

You may be right, I'm basing this on an old piece of text-to-voice software that came with the original Sound Blaster. (It use to say "hexillion" and "ninthillion", although "sextillion" and "nonillion" sounds more consistent.)

BM