Tim writes:
A mole is an easy way of saying 6x10^23 bits. Thats a lot of bits, so mole is a good word.
See - if I were let loose on the sciences, I'd just be tempted to call it a whopper, or a squndlerun, or maybe a flibbletigrob; naming a big number after a garden animal is not something that would cross my mind. I suspect this is more evidence that I'm destined not to be a scientist.
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