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- How long will it take to deliver the sand?
It will take 1011 loads/52596 loads a –1 = 1.9 x 106 years.
1.9 million years!!
Now you know why I guaranteed to buy it.
Archimedes had some interest in the number of grains of sand in the universe; and the number of sand-grains on Coney Island has been estimated at 1020, well short of what we would need.
To get a sense of the effects of powers of ten, there is no better book than ‘Powers of Ten’, from Scientific American. It has a series of photos each taken at 10 times the distance of the previous one, and is pretty startling.
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