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...down upon unsuspecting Germans at Essen, Recklinghausen, Dortmund and dragged away 1,700,000,000,000 marks. It did not matter; the Reichsbank has more than 1,182,038,536,000,000 more paper marks, and at the present rate they may even reach the impossible figure of a quintillion, i.e., 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 marks...
...might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving away from us 150 miles every second. By the time the Dudley Street car reached the Cloud's present location, the galaxy would be 556 quintillion miles further on its way. A rocket leaving the earth at 540,000 miles an hour would never catch this baffling, Cloud, but if the speed were kept up, it would "just about hold...
...section in Latin 12 will finish Quintillion at the next recitation, and then will take up Gellius. The edition of Hertz in the Tenbner series is recommended...