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                            ***     THE SIZE OF THE MOLE   ***


You have just won One Mole of Chocolate Chips!  You must store them.

[A standard chocolate chip is 10mm in diameter.  If you calculate its volume (500 cu mm ) and divide it into the volume of a refrigerator (600mm X 600mm X 1000mm = 3.6 X 10 to the 8 cu mm) you will find that 1 million (10 to the 6) chips will fit in the fridge].

You toss out the useless junk, like salad stuff, and pack in your first 10 to the 6 chips.

Now stuff a house full ( 10m X 20m X 3m) and you will have stored a billion chips, 10 to the 9.

Well, now fill all the houses in a large city (10 to the 6) and you have stored 10 to the 15 chips!

OK, next we'll cover the earth to a depth of 3 meters and we have stashed 10 to the 22.

It will require 60 earths to finish the job piled 3 meters deep!

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Now let us count the chips.  All 6 billion people will count a chip per second without a break.  That's 6 X 10 to the 9  chips/sec.

It will require 3 million years to count a mole of chips!

(6 X 10 to the 23 chips/6 X 10 to the 9 chips per sec = 1 X 10 to the 
     14 seconds.
Sec/yr = 60 X 60 X 24 X 365 = 3 X 10 to the 7.

1 X 10 to the 14 sec/3 X 10 to the 7sec per yr = 3 X 10 to the 6 years.



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Uncle Sam s government decides to divide up a mole of dollars amongst all 6 billion folks of the earth. (Sound familiar?).

Your share is   6  X 10 to the 23 / 6  X 10 to the 9  =  1 X 10 to the 14  dollars per person! (Might cause inflation!).
		           

             The Mole is a Veeerrryyyyy Laaaarrrggge  Number!!!