Re: Counting to 1,000,000
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:20 pm
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R D Anderson wrote:This has been going on for 5 and a half years. . . .
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GAT-X207 wrote:you guys are damn crazy to undertake this countdown. biazare as it is its been done.
"Typing to One Million
Les Stewart from Mudjimba, Australia, holds the world's record of typing all numbers from one to one million in words (not numbers). He began in 1982 and finished with the entry "one million" on November 25, 1998.
Seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished with the lines "nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. ---one million."
When asked why he has undertaken this time consuming and repetitious task, Les says that he has little else to do now that he has been classed as an invalid, and can no longer work. Besides that, Les enjoys typing and used to be a police typing instructor before his sickness which meant his withdrawal from the force. Typing an average three pages a day with one finger since April 1982, Les said his secret was to type for 20 minutes on the hour, every hour"
source" http://www.oddee.com/item_86932.aspx
it took 16 years to type the words, just think how long numbers will take o.o