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r/theydidthemath • u/phase_lag • 2d ago
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Not sure about this but.. Size of earth is about 106 m Size of an atom is 10-10 Size of dust is according to google 10-6 So no about a third of the way
1 u/nwbrown 2d ago Yeah, that's not how exponents work. A spec of dust is, using your numbers, 104 times bigger. Earth is 1012 times bigger than a spec of dust. So the spec of dust is 1/108th, or 1/100,000,000 of the way there. 100,000,000 is a little bigger than 3.
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Yeah, that's not how exponents work.
A spec of dust is, using your numbers, 104 times bigger.
Earth is 1012 times bigger than a spec of dust.
So the spec of dust is 1/108th, or 1/100,000,000 of the way there.
100,000,000 is a little bigger than 3.
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u/Apart_Astronomer9944 2d ago
Not sure about this but.. Size of earth is about 106 m Size of an atom is 10-10 Size of dust is according to google 10-6 So no about a third of the way