Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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There are hundreds of billions of water molecules in a pond. We used to call that astronomical numbers. Now we should call them wet numbers.
- Anonymous, no diploma, Won no prize
that's funny in a sad way....
Nice quote.
Anon.
you're trying too hard. do you really have to have the last word?
Feynman was a great one for quotes. He once said that "Physics is to Mathematics as masterbation is to sex." I still haven't figured that one out.
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