... Gautama answers: ayuta, niyuta, karikara, vivara, achobya, vivaha, utsanga, bahula, nagabala, titilambha, vyavaithanaprajnapti (! that' s 1031), and so through the alluring samaptalambha (1037) and ... and 1087, you have to say that Archimedes' estimate wasn't all that bad This is a spectacular application of the Greek insight that the world afar can be grasped by analogy to the world at hand ... even claim that such flexibility was the greatest advantage of this notation Whoever it was, in the latter days of Babylon, that first gave to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, has left...