The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War..  Afghanistan, then, in a sense, became the United States' pawn.
There is no largest number. One simple way to consider this is to  look at the function:    f(x) = x + 1    Pick any number, and plug it into that function. No â¦ matter what  number you plug in, the function will always give you a number that  is one larger than the previous one. It doesn't matter how big x  is, there will always be an x + 1 value, which will always be  larger than x.
What's the biggest number? Numbers go on forever â but on the way to infinity, there are some pretty remote way posts. To our ancestors, a million was as big as numbers needed to get. There was no need to invoke the billions (1,000,000,000) of finance or the terabytes (1012) of computing. Technology has made us blasÃ© about using 9 or 12 digit numbers in conversation.