Scientists discovered remarkably preserved dinosaur-era bird wings trapped inside amber for nearly 100,000,000 years, with feathers and tissue still visible
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And still it doesn't really, considering the exponential scale used for writing down numbers.
The only way that would really give a proper sense of scale is the good old tally list. But with that it would harldy be possible to count up to 100 million.
Nonsense, we can crowd source this. Look, I'll start:
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We could write a bot to do this.
How many bits have been sent over the internet? Probably more than that measly 100 billion.
We only got to three, and someone immediately jumps in and tries to AI the whole thing. This here is our entire problem.
4 lines of python is now AI?
What's the problem? 100M digits even in worst case Unicode would be less than 1GiB. Totally doable in the modern world.