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That page is self-contradicting in a stupid way.

> You can put every quantity in the world on a scale from -10 to +10, where 0 is human-scale, and every number higher means 10x more

> [...], and ↑9 is the Sun. It doesn’t get much bigger than that unless you’re doing astrophysics.

So, which one is it?



This scale goes to 11. The age of the universe is ^17 and the size of the Universe is ^27. IMO this is still on the -10 to +10 scale, considering the sizes of the quantities involved.

Thanks for the comment, I appreciate your willingness to share your disdain!




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