Riffs & Rotes & Numbers Round & Rare & Random

[Hans Havermann]

on 6/28/01 10:58 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:

> I am guessing then that it was Eddington's number for protons?
> Of course, there has been a lot of inflation since then ...

:) Alan L. Mackay's "Scientific Quotations" (1977) gives:

"I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,3
66,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number
of electrons." [Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Tarner Lecture 1938]