Numbers in the news.500 Billion Billion positions is the maximum number of possible moves in the game of checkers checkers, game for two players, known in England as draughts. It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored—usually red and black or white and black—square spaces, identical with a chessboard. . It took a computer scientist nearly 20 years to record them all. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8,000,000 years spent frozen in the Antarctic wasn't the end of existence for some ancient bacteria. When scientists thawed out some of the organisms, they came back to life. 72,000 cheeseburgers contain 20 million calories. That's the amount of energy it taken to fuel all the Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and cyclists This is an incomplete list. Please add to this list if you are aware of an omission. This is a list of cyclists by decade. Cyclists by decade Cyclists before the 1880s
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 6,000 feet high in California's Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. Mountains grows the rare, stinky Yosemite bog-orchid. A botanist who recently found one of the flowers says it smells like sweaty feet. Pew! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 500 centimeter centimeter (sĕn`tĭmē'tər), abbr. cm, unit of length equal to 0.01 meter, the basic unit of length in the metric system. The centimeter is the unit of length in the cgs system. It is approximately equal to 0. is the diameter of the world's largest Hula-Hoop. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 60 moons are now known to orbit Saturn. Scientists recently discovered a new one that they've temporarily named "Frank." |
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