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Catholic Exchange Forums Topic: Googleplex http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ Catholic Exchange Forums Topic: Googleplex en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:10:46 +0000 pouliot on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12061 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:59:30 +0000 pouliot 12061@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ To: MKochan Hmmm.  It seems I've confounded Kayyam with aomeone else (or it's two of his poems I've mingled).  The image I see in the last lines I quoted is of a caring master who places the &quot'pieces" back into the closet from whence they came.  Sort of a return to the potter.<dl><dt>Regards,</dt><dd>Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic & amateur whatever)</dd></dl> mkochan on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12060 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:10:29 +0000 mkochan 12060@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ I learned this bit years ago:The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help -- for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. This though is fatalism. The God we wroship is not here described, for He is Love. He dies for us; He does not toy with us. pouliot on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12059 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:04:45 +0000 pouliot 12059@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ To: P.S. <blockquote>RE: my elipltic "borrowed from the eastern Master. The parallelism is very close, almost too close to be coincidental. But I cannot be certain."</blockquote><blockquote>The moving finger writesAnd having written moves on.But helpless pieces of the game he playsUpon the checkered board of nights and daysHe one by one moves and checks and slaysAnd one by one, back in the closet lays.</blockquote> <dl><dt>Regards,</dt><dd>Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic & amateur whatever)</dd></dl> wljewell on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12058 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:57:15 +0000 wljewell 12058@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ God loves you . + Hello, Sigma, + My 'conundrum' is plain logic from out of astrophysics and philosophy, and His own Word. + God from love of His children made all and maintains all. + + God made all, all matter, including His children from 'nothing but love', and of incredibly small and simply functional particles in complex relationships. + + + God holds all, and for His love of us, all and sundry of particle to atom to molecule to organ to Old Sigma, in the palm of His hand. The extension of relationships from God's creative perspective is: + for us to be awed by His power - i.e., learn fear of the Lord - in observing the particles and their harmony of functions; + for us to be stewards of His created, useful goodness for us; + for us to love and be loved with each other, through, with and in love and for love of God. Simple logic . . . yes? . . . no? Remember, I love you, too Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com) pouliot on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12057 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:40:45 +0000 pouliot 12057@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ To: P.S. <blockquote>RE: "And, of every particle of every atom, uncountable by any name, God knows, holds in grace and yields to His children for their place before returning Home."</blockquote>Posing me conundrums are you?  You have me over a barrel.  That could be your own imagery or you may have borrowed from the eastern Master.  The parallelism is very close, almost too close to be coincidental.  But I cannot be certain.  So help me out: Is that your own verse or have you borrowed to some amount?<dl><dt>Regards,</dt><dd>Old Sigma</dd></dl> wljewell on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12056 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:16:06 +0000 wljewell 12056@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ God loves you . And, of every particle of every atom, uncountable by any name, God knows, holds in grace and yields to His children for their place before returning Home. Remember, I love you, too Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com) pouliot on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12055 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:11:17 +0000 pouliot 12055@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ <a name="megis">To</a>: The wayfarer to this lonely outpost <blockquote>RE: "As if this weren't enough, I've heard the nephew went on to invent a way of writing even larger numbers down. This is basically a system of notation that depends on recursive definitions and geometric shapes. It is too difficult to illustrate in text alone. I've forgotten what the numbers are called (mega-something I think) but one day I may remember. "</blockquote>I think it was "megiston".<dl><dt>Regards,</dt><dd>Old Sigma</dd></dl> pouliot on "Googleplex" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/704#post-12054 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:44:20 +0000 pouliot 12054@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ To: Protect the Rock <blockquote>RE: "I remember my dad told me about a number called a googaplex"</blockquote>The word is "googleplex." In the book by Kasner & Newman one of the authors (I think it was Kasner) tells how his nephew invented the &googleplex," Kasner was discussing numbers with his nephew, a boy of about 8, I believe.  The young fellow invented the name "google" for the number formed by writing a hundred zeros after the number 1.  (To grasp the size of that number think for a moment that "100" is the number 1 with only 2 zeros after it.  From a different viewpoint, a "google" is large enough to count all the hydrogen atoms in the universe.)Sometime later, the nephew said that he had identified a number larger than a "google."  Kasner asked him what it was and the nephew said "the number 1 with a google of zeros after it."  The name for that number is "googleplex."  To grasp the enormity of a "googleplex", consider: there isn't enough time estimated to remain in the life of the universe to write that number out. As if this weren't enough, I've heard the nephew went on to invent a way of writing even larger numbers down.  This is basically a system of notation that depends on recursive definitions and geometric shapes.  It is too difficult to illustrate in text alone.  I've forgotten what the numbers are called (mega-something I think) but one day I may remember.