The cider category has been growing for years in Alberta. Last year alone saw a 19 percent increase in volume sold in the province. Partly because of this and for other reasons (not the least of which it makes a great gluten-free drinking option), craft cideries have begun to emerge along with their brewery and distillery brethren. Alberta is no exception and Calgary’s Uncommon Cider wins for their Great Northern Wild Cider. This cider is partly cloudy and made with a combination of apples and crabapples, which are fermented with wild yeast. Dry, tasty, and refreshing. David Nuttall
Chemistry is not a world unto itself. It is woven firmly into the fabric of the rest of the world, and various fields, from literature to archeology, thread their way through the chemist's text.
“Do you know what a nonillion is?” queried my mathematician spouse as he plopped into the chair in front of our household computer, “Is it Latin or something?” “Something to do with nine I’m sure,” I offered from the sofa. “That’s OK, I can google it.” What’s the urgency I wonder? 1 vs. 100 is the issue. The mob won.
So what is a nonillion and does it have anything to do with nine? The short answers are: it depends and yes. Nonillion is a novelty number - a term I just coined for numbers that have names, but no uses. Like a googol. The early British usage of nonillion was for 1054 - nine million millions. Americans used nonillion for 1030 or 103+3x9. In other words, the result of multiplying a thousand (103) by a thousand nine times.
The system of counting by thousands is sometimes called the “short scale” (from the French term echelle courte). The long scale (echelle longue) counts by millions. Most English speaking countries (both the US and UK included) use the short scale, while most of the rest of the world uses a version of the long scale.
It’s hard to get a sense of scale with these enormous numbers, but a nonillion (long scale) is (very) roughly the order of magnitude of the mass of the universe in kilograms. There are roughly 5 nonillion bacteria (short scale) on earth.
The word billion still cause confusion among non-scientific Brits who often insist it is a million X million, whereas in science and finance it's a 1000 million, of course. It must really mess with their heads to imagine how big is the national debt when it's measured in billions if they're thing 10E12!
Why was Michelle so sure that nonillion was related to nine? She remembered her latin. Nine is nonus.
This post originally appeared at the UNESCO International Year of Light's blog, in October 2015. The site is no longer available. I...
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