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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Ah! that's just what I said to the young doctor, and he said to me, 'I'll tell you what, Fred Borders, no man alive understands how much that is, and what's more, no man ever will; but I'll give you some notion of what it means'; and so he told me how long it would take forty thousand men to count that number of eleven quadrillions, nine hundred and ninety-nine trillions, each man of the forty thousand beginning 'one , 'two', 'three', and going on till the sum of the whole added together would make it up.
A wiggling, brainless, slimy atom began it. He and trillions of his kind. He and his tribe lived and died on the sea-bottom, successive generations piling higher on the skeletons and lifework or the life-loafing, for they were lazy atoms of those that went before. At last the coral reef crawled upward until in uncharted waters it was tall enough to smash a wooden ship-keel.
Max Muller well says, 'If we look about for analogies we find nothing, as far as I know, corresponding to the well- marked features of this barbarous myth among any of the uncivilised tribes of the earth. If we did, how we should rejoice! I do rejoice! I even asked why Mr. I cannot explain why this tale was told both of Erinnys and of Saranyu. Edgeworth's trillions of trillions feebly express it.
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