Comment by everybodyknows
Comment by everybodyknows 4 days ago
How does promotion by a single non-profit talking shop, however celebrated or intellectual were its founders, make it a "valid notation"?
Five digits don't even make sense in practical anthropic terms, since we're obviously headed for a shitload of trouble long before the hundreds digit next wraps.
Indeed, my joke was written with the full knowledge of this farce. To make any prediction about technology in use 8000 years from now is just silly.