
"There are more possible chess games (10^120) than atoms in the observable universe (10^80)."
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"There are more possible chess games (10^120) than atoms in the observable universe (10^80)."
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52! ≈ 8 × 10^67 possible arrangements of a deck of cards
Pi
Pi has been calculated to over 100 trillion digits
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture
Observable universe
The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter
Richard Feynman's diagrams turned quantum field theory calculations from intractable algebra into picture-bookkeeping
Feynman diagrams simplified quantum field theory from complex algebra to visual bookkeeping
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel proved incompleteness theorems
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