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Date: April 5th, 2008

Mac OS X’s Magical Undecillion

5 April, 2008 (22:28) | Tehchnology | By: Kyle Weber

I was curios how well OS X can say number magnitudes, and while doing so found out something very interesting. If you go to the terminal and type “say 1000000000000000000000000000000000000″ (which is one undecillion), you get a buss error. If you go to textedit, enter that number, and tell it to speak it (under the [...]

Mac OS X’s Magical Undecillion

5 April, 2008 (22:28) | Tehchnology | By: Kyle Weber

I was curios how well OS X can say number magnitudes, and while doing so found out something very interesting. If you go to the terminal and type “say 1000000000000000000000000000000000000″ (which is one undecillion), you get a buss error. If you go to textedit, enter that number, and tell it to speak it (under the [...]