Isn’t the Yakuza organised crime?
I’m hoping that the poster was being sarcastic, as none of those statements are true. I think it must be what some people claim.
I mean, his very next sentence contradicts no gambling and no organized crime: if neither existed, there wouldn’t be regulations against it.
This isn’t exactly an “object”, but… computer clock cycles. A single computer running for a long period of time can count many quadrillions of clock cycles; quintillions, if you count multi-core setups. And the computer does it exactly: in all likelihood, not a single glitch over the course of years.
I don’t think it’s what the OP is looking for (they’re rather like the pachinko balls), but I can’t resist.
Holes in the interior liner of the old Metrodome roof, pre-collapse. (What can I say, I’m not big into baseball.) I’m certain every kid that’s ever been to a Twins game (before the new stadium), Vikings game, or whatever else that’s been held in the Dome has counted those holes. (Many adults, too.) Same holes, but they’ve been counted several hundreds of thousands of times by now.
The new roof’s interior liner doesn’t have any holes - apparently dome technology has advanced since 1982.
Booooooo!
'bout time.
That’s interesting. I always thought counting with thumbs was more a European thing (and, yes, I know Europe isn’t a homogenous area.) When you ask an American to show “two” with his fingers, in my experience, usually you will be shown a peace sign, the forefinger and the middle finger. When I was living in Hungary, I had to learn to show “two” by extending my thumb and forefinger, instead. ETA: That said, now that I think about it, when actually counting, I will start with my left thumb, and my right thumb will be six, and not ten.
How many holes there are in Albert Hall.
This reminds me of the Great Thinkin’ Contest of Nineteen-Ought-Fifty-Four.
And 10,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Has anyone mentioned sperm?
Untold trillions of sperm die every day.
Fingers.
These guys have a device that counts individual electrons as they flow in a circuit. It is limited to one pA, which is about 6 million electrons a second, but that still means they can count 21 billion electrons in an hour. Real individual electrons. (As much as the notion of individual electrons actually makes sense.)
I suspect the Lincon one cent is actually the right answer. I live in Australia - and I found one whilst cleaning up my wardrobe this afternoon.
Call us back when you have told trillions, not just untold ones.
Time? We’ve been counting time for a long while now. While time is continuous it can be broken down into discrete countable units- second, minutes etc.
I was coming here to say electrons.
From the Wiki on ampere
Think of all the amp meters on all the equipment in the world measuring all those amps then multiply by 6.241 × 10[sup]18[/sup].
That my friends is a metric butt load
Can you guarantee that they’ve never counted the same electron twice?
I can’t even guarantee that there’s more than one electron in the Universe.
Thank you, BigT
I really thought I was being obvious.
I’ll try working more with the icons next time.