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...Champaign, Ill. Professor Frank G. Dickinson divided a standard billiard table into 398,000 blocks, calculated that there are 63,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion) possible billiard shots...
...Cincinnati, Miss Florence E. Weaver bequeathed her estate of $609,000 providing that it first be held at accrued interest for 500 years. The eventual amount: 24 quadrillion dollars. The purpose: to house crippled children, build parks, aid "the poor of the Caucasian race...
...volume it is at least a thousand times larger than it was thought to be before the distances to the clusters were measured. Furthermore, Dr. Shapley has discovered that the sun, instead of being at the center of the sidereal universe, as was formerly supposed, is really several hundred quadrillion miles away from...
...Shapley's studies of the famous star-cluster in Hercules known as "Messier 13" have proved that this cluster has a diameter of more than two and a half quadrillion miles, and contains probably more than fifty thousand stars, each of them intrinsically brighter than the sun. His researches have also played a large part in establishing the fact that the great star-clusters are found only at immense distances from the plane of the galaxy, or Milky Way, but appear to be falling into it. Dr. Shapley's hypothesis is that the Milky Way itself may be composed...