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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

List of humorous units of measurement

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    Sagan

    See also: Indefinite and fictitious numbers § Sagan’s number

    As a humorous tribute to Carl Sagan and his association with the catchphrase “billions and billions”, a sagan has been defined as a large quantity – technically at least four billion (two billion plus two billion) – of anything.[5][6]

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