Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number

Re:Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number by noodle on Monday June 16, 2008 @10:22PM (#219325)

get a decent handful of blogs together. the point would be to get the definition to show up in google's define, here:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=define%3AQuadrupillion

i think you could make a case to insert it into wikipedia if you can get on that page, and it probably isn't that hard to do if you set your mind to it :)

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Re:Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number by rms on Monday June 16, 2008 @10:24PM (#219328)

I'm an extreme Wikipedia inclusionist, but unfortunately that is not the rule on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

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Re:Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number by hugh on Monday June 16, 2008 @11:56PM (#219388)

Why don't all the extreme wikipedia inclusionists start their own, more inclusive, wiki? One with a page for every random idea that anybody's six-year-old kid ever has?

I'm serious.

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Re:Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number by xlnt on Monday June 16, 2008 @10:27PM (#219330)

Yeah, hard disk space is cheap. excluding stuff is dumb. if you want visitors to find high quality articles then make the search box work well. google doesn't exclude webpages for lack of notability. their bar is low and they make up for it by knowing which things are more or less notable.

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Re:Ask YC: Six year old proposes new number by hugh on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:54AM (#219484)

Actually, if you start making pages for every not-particularly-interesting integer on the order of a googolplex, you'll quickly find out that hard disk space isn't cheap any more.

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