wRithmetic

Good day! I've been wlistening (the new efficient wreading for me) to an audio book in the car - Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything. So far, it's fascinating - but full of lots and lots and lots of big numbers because he's been talking about the age of the planet Earth and at the moment E=(mc)squared. Good idea these audio books but not so good for numbers I've discovered. If I were reading the book I would have just looked at the trillion trillion billion xxx and realised it was a very big number, but when it's being read like a story - it's a bit of a waste of time because when the reader is reading he has to say this is one, zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero ....that is one trillion...PACH! ridiculous. However, not sure how else he could do it. Still doing a spiffing job. Have listened to the nearly 5 hours. Only another 14 to go...but I'm sure even after 19 hours we will only the briefest of histories of the world. Perhaps 0.0000000000000000000000000001% of it :-)