A quote

[thebitterguy]

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.

-- Richard Feynman

Comments

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Some people say that we should call a number of around that magnitude a Sagan, after Carl Sagan's quote "Billions and billions".