Hella vs Giga

Examples

• Take a typical 6 character bit.ly url http://bit.ly/9xoCS (though they can keep expanding). Assume that they only use ASCII numbers, capital, and miniscule letters, so a-z, A-Z, and 0-9 (that's 62⁶). Then, with the six character variation, bit.ly can create 56.8 gigaurls, or 5.68e-17 hellaurls.
  
  How long would a bit.ly URL have to be to be able to create at least one hellaurl? You would only need an 18 character URL path (past domain name), 62¹⁸. So, http://bit.ly/9xoCS26wumy79d0v3K, which would be 47.67 hellaurls.
   
• The amount of energy released by the sun is about 0.3 hellawatts of energy^[1], or about 300,000,000,000,000,000 gigawatts.
  
  
  
   
• Hella is not so big after all if you consider that there are about 10⁴⁷ possible moves in chess^[2], or roughly 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 hellamoves. Add 18 more zeros to figure out the gigamoves yourself.
  
  
  
   
• There are about 177,278,861,500 gigagallons in the Pacific Ocean (161,000,000 miles³ * 1.10111715 X 10¹² US gallons/mile³⁾, so there are about .0000001722 hellagallons.
  
  
  
   
• Light travels about 0.3 gigameters per second. Add 18 zeros before the 3 to get it in hellameters.
   
• If you take Google Map's recommended route across I-80, there are about 2906 miles to travel from San Francisco to New York City. That is about 184.1 million inches, or a mere 0.1841 gigainches from San Francisco to New York, so about 0.0000000000000000001841 hellainches.
  
  
  
   
• Odds of winning the jackpot in Superenalotto in Italy
  • 1 in 622 megachances
  • 1 in 0.62 gigachances
  • 1 in a snowball 0.00000000000000000062 hellachances
     
• The 2010 New York Yankee's payroll is about .206 gigadollars ^[3] ($206 million). Add 18 zeros before the 2 to get the helladollars.
   
• Possible states of a Rubik's Cube (4 x 10¹⁹)^[4]
  • 40,000,000,000 gigaRubiksCubeStates
  • 0.00000004 hellaRubikCubeStates
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• In a year, light travels 9,467,280 gigameters, or only .0000000000095 hellameters.
  
  
   
• There are about 6.8 billion people on the Earth, so that means there are 6.8 gigapeople, or 0.0000000000000000068 hellapeople.
   
• There are about 31.5 million seconds in a year, so that means there are 0.0315 gigaseconds, or 0.0000000000000000000315 hellaseconds.
   
• There are about 10²⁴ stars in the universe^[6]. That is 10¹⁵ gigastars, or  .001 hellastars.
   
• There are about 10⁸⁰ atoms in the universe. That is 10⁷¹ gigaatoms, or 10⁵³ hellatoms.

See Also

• Billion vs Million
• Hella vs Kilo
• Hella vs Mega
• Hella vs Tera
• Hella vs Peta
• Hella vs Exa
• Hella vs Zeta
• Hella vs Yota

External Links

• The Official Petition to Establish "Hella-" as the SI Prefix for 10^27,  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Official-Petition-to-Establish-Hella-as-the-SI-Prefix-for-1027/277479937276?ref=ts
   
• Fun books on numbers by John Allen Paulos
  

References

1. >Telegraph.co.uk: News, Business, Sport, the Daily Telegraph Newspaper, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph. 02 Mar. 2010. Web. 01 June 2010. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7352204/Hella-number-scientists-call-for-new-word-for-1000000000000000000000000000.html>.
2. "Chess." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 31 May 2010. Web. 31 May. 2010., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
3. "MLB Salaries - CBSSports.com." Sports - CBSSports.com Sports News, Fantasy Scores, Sports Video. Web. 01 June 2010. <http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries/teams>
4. Paulos, John Allen. "Examples and Principles." Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. New York: Hill and Wang, 1988. 12. Print
5. "File:Rubiks Cube by Keqs.jpg." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 01 June 2010. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rubiks_cube_by_keqs.jpg>.
6. Cain, Frasier. "How Many Stars?" Universe Today. Web. 01 June 2010. <http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/how-many-stars/>.