/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.6890478]

>tfw don't even understand moles

[Anonymous No.6890483]

>>6890478
Think of it like a dozen but *10000

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.6890495]

>>6890483
>10000
lel

[Anonymous No.6890755]

Nobody does. The evolution of moles is an unsolved problem in zoology.

[Anonymous No.6890776]

>>6890755
God, especially the star-nosed mole.

[Anonymous No.6890834]

>>6890776
Probably had sex with earth worms.

[Anonymous No.6890954]

>>6890478

It's for counting.

When you have 1, you have "One."
When you have 1000 "One," we use a new name: Thousand.
When you have 1000 "Thousand", we use a new name: "Million"
When you have 1000 millions, we use another name: "Billion"
When you have So when you have 1000 000 000 000 "One," you have "Trillion.

And when you have 6.022 141 29 x 10^23, we use a new name: "Mole."

Which is the number you would count to if you counted all the atoms in 12g of C12.

[Anonymous No.6891918]

>>6890478
a mole is basically like going to the store and asking for "a dozen"

[Anonymous No.6891933]

>>6890776

>that nose

for what purpose

[Anonymous No.6891949]

>>6890478
What's so hard to understand about blind burrowing rodents?

[Anonymous No.6891962]

How on earth did avogadro count the little critters?

[Anonymous No.6891975]

>>6891933
Something someting Bondage Fairies.

[Anonymous No.6891977]

>>6890954
And in case you are from a country that's not completely mad it goes million 10^6, milliard 10^9, billion 10^12=(10^6)^2, billiard 10^15, trillion 10^18=(10^6)^3 etc. such that the illions correspond to powers of million and the iards are the half power steps.

[Anonymous No.6891988]

>>6891933
Feeling fingers for your nose.
Claws are less sensitive.

[Anonymous No.6891997]

>>6891977
>billiard 10^15
I've seen a billiard balls and it's not nearly that many.

[Anonymous No.6892010]

>>6891997
Billiards used to be played with 10^15 balls on the table but they never managed to finish a game before getting blackout drunk so they reduced the number and kept the original name.

[Anonymous No.6892030]

>>6892010

[Anonymous No.6892090]

>>6891977
that's a moronic system

[Anonymous No.6892918]

>>6892090
At least it is a system and not completely arbitrary.

[Anonymous No.6892970]

>>6892918

[Anonymous No.6893004]

>>6892090
miljoen
miljard
biljoen
biljard
triljoen
triljard
quadriljoen
quadriljard
quintiljoen
etc

what's moronic about it?

[Anonymous No.6893031]

>>6891977
>tfw realized you used 10^9 as billion on the exam

oh well, the question asked for the ratio of two quantities which were in the billions, so the answer might still be correct

[Anonymous No.6893058]

>>6890478
moles?

[Anonymous No.6893100]

>>6891988
And whiskers are probably too sensitive or get bent/pulled out.