It depends. If you're going to say that knowing the magnitude of a billion or a googol is trivia, why not also the fact that there are 360 degrees in a circle (arguably, radians are the only "natural" measure of angle) or that a kilometre is a thousand metres?
Indeed, you could even try claiming that our denary place-digit system is trivia rather than mathematics. (-8
Trivianess is not binary; I think the definition of a googol is probably well towards the trivia end of it, too. Not knowing a billion would be a bit more concerning, though - the term is relatively common. (But confusion is also excusable, given the persistence of the anachronistic 1012 version.)
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Date: 2004-02-24 02:26 pm (UTC)Indeed, you could even try claiming that our denary place-digit system is trivia rather than mathematics. (-8
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Date: 2004-02-25 05:18 am (UTC)(And the same goes for using imperial measurements in front of children.)