Fwd: What is a mere 1.7 trillion dollars ( federal government spending ) as a quantity compared to Avogadro's famous number in high school chemistry ?

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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 15:00
Subject: What is a mere 1.7 trillion dollars ( federal government spending ) as a quantity compared to Avogadro's famous number in high school chemistry ?
To: Letters, NYT <letters@nytimes.com>

Do not these government spending numbers boggle the mind ? Actually the NUMBER 1.7 trillion in scientific notation looks like this :

1.7 e + 12 - Which is almost nothing as a quantity compared to a number also expressed in scientific notation familiar to bright high school chemistry students :

Avogadro's Number : 6.02 e + 23 a measure of MOLES in chemical reactions.

There are far more molecules in a gram of gold than there are abstract dollars in the budget of the federal government .

So even understanding economic statistics of the federal government is not hopeless -with or without a scientific calculator .

Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston , Rhode Island (401-580-7432 )

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