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Randall Munroe answers your wildest questions

The TED Interview

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How Many Zeros Are There?

I tried to figure out what these kinds of numbers would really mean in practice. And I eventually just concluded, like paying this settlement is like impossible and not just, you know, practically impossible. It's like impossible in almost any sense of the word you can come up with. Of course, you pretty quickly like crash the market for potassium and calcium. But, but there's, we don't have a lot of options here if we need this much money.

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