Visualizing "as big as ___" -- GREAT site!

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From: Jo Falcon (jofalcon@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 15:53:28 PDT 

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jo Falcon <jofalcon@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Visualizing "as big as ___" -- GREAT site!
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One more from Librarians' Index to the internet, lii.org:

 MegaPenny Project
      A site that helps to visualize extremely large numbers,
      using the common penny. For each quantity, the value,
      width (side-by-side), height (stacked), thickness,
      weight, and area (laid flat) are provided. There are also
      a table of very big numbers, a bonus section
      (MegaMoo) illustrating how large 1,000,000 cows would
      be, and related resources.
      http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/
      Subjects: Size judgment...
      Created by: dl

Jo Falcon, MLIS
The Exploratorium Learning Studio
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