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Ulysses

universes of void space constellated with other bodies,
each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component
bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of
redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever

diminishing without actual division till, if the progress
were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never
reached.
Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more
precise result?
Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied
with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had
learned of .the existence of a number computed to a
relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of
so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9,
that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed
volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and
reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in
order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of
units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds
of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every
digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality
of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any
power of any of its powers.

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