Maths



__**Measurement Magic **__ This is the work from Mr Kenards Measurement Magic unit. It explores the unthinkably big and unimaginably small. I have really enjoyed this program as it makes you think about things really hard. These are some of my wonderings about the text on the wiki.

Wow, there are some very big numbers out there! I always thought that a trillion was big but, man when you get up to like sextillion and vigintillion it is mind blowing. And the dollar bill thing, well I am not sure i think that is right but that is pretty cool really. Imagine getting all the united states money and stacking it up!? That would be pretty awesome! 63 zeroes! Wow! But what about googol and googolplex, those are very, very, very, very big numbers! The article doesn’t mention those.
 * One - A Trillion**

Gosh there are certainly a lot of ants around. But its not really that suprising, I mean if you ever see ants you usually see at least 200 or so. And if you put into consideration how small that tiny piece of land is where you saw them compared with the size of the earth and if there are aproxamately 200 ants for every square meter then man alive, thats a lot of ants! 1,140,217,793,400,000 This massive number is about how many ants live on our earth! Thats 1 Quadrillion, 140 Trillion, 217 Million, 400 Thousand! OMG!
 * Two - Us And The Ants**

Usain Bolt is now the fastest man alive. He is 6.5 and is a proud Jamacian. Usain enjoys dancing and playing cricket as hobbies. At the Bejing olympics Bolt won 3 gold medals and broke 2 records, one the the 100m sprint and the other for the 200m sprint. He has set the 100m sprint record to 9.69 seconds and the 200m sprint to 19.30 seconds. That is amazing! That means he can travel one kilometer in 96.9 seconds!
 * Two - Fastest Man Alive**

Tiny things... Where to start?! probably the tiniest thing I can think of is an atom which I thought was the smallest thing ever until last years ‘How big is big?’ program where I found read about splitting atoms! Ahhh! This is just too much! I can’t even comprehend an atom let alone half or quarter of one! Imagine, if ONE strand of hair is about one million atoms in width an ant would be like sextillion [found this number in that article] atoms wide. That is such a lot of atoms and thats for one of the smallest animals on earth. I wonder how many atoms the world is made out of.....?
 * My Small Explortions**