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Large Numbers in The Everyday World

Examples of large numbers describing everyday real-world objects are:

  • The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2010, typically about 1013, 500-1000 GB)
  • The estimated number of atoms in the observable Universe (1080)
  • The number of cells in the human body (more than 1014)
  • The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 1014)
  • The Avogadro constant, the number of "elementary entities" (usually atoms or molecules) in one mole; the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12; (approximately 6.022 × 1023 per mole)

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