Difficult questions
While hanging out my second load of washing, Isabelle asked me:
"What is the biggest number?"
A good question indeed! I gave a simple answer, along the lines of:
"It's called infinity - bigger than you or I could even imagine". Isabelle's response was:
"What is the biggest number?".
Obviously the first answer didn't do the trick! I thought along a different tack.
"What is the biggest number you can think of?"
"It has a two, and an "o" ".
"Well, imagine that number plus one - then plus two, then plus three - and we can go on and on until infinity".
Silence. Then:
"But it has a two, and an "o" ".
I just turned to her now and asked her what she thought the biggest number was, and she said (drawing in the air with her finger):
"It has a two and a zero, and then you can put a two and a zero on your blog to remind people".
So here they are:
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"What is the biggest number?"
A good question indeed! I gave a simple answer, along the lines of:
"It's called infinity - bigger than you or I could even imagine". Isabelle's response was:
"What is the biggest number?".
Obviously the first answer didn't do the trick! I thought along a different tack.
"What is the biggest number you can think of?"
"It has a two, and an "o" ".
"Well, imagine that number plus one - then plus two, then plus three - and we can go on and on until infinity".
Silence. Then:
"But it has a two, and an "o" ".
I just turned to her now and asked her what she thought the biggest number was, and she said (drawing in the air with her finger):
"It has a two and a zero, and then you can put a two and a zero on your blog to remind people".
So here they are:
2 0
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