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Word: kouska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...considers himself a genius of the highest order also believes that such elite members of the race are never recognized. In another story Lem overloads the probability theory to suggest playfully that no one should exist. Each man's chances of being, says Lem's Professor Kouska, is a "teragigamegamulticentillion-to-one shot." In physics, one chance in a centillion is considered an impossibility because there are fewer than a centillion seconds before the end of the universe. The origin of this fact is unclear. But who's counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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