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What is the largest number in observable reality we know of with very high accuracy?

Asked by mattbrowne (31729points) March 3rd, 2010

He are a few candidates (subject matter experts please comment on accuracy):

Number of atoms in our universe: 10^80 +/- 10^78

Number of stars in our universe: 10^23 +/- 10^22

US national debt as of March 4, 2010 at 11 am: $12,514,506,202,842.88 +/- $ 1 billion

Age of the universe: 13.73 billion years +/- 120 million

Population of the Earth as of March 4, 2010 at 11 am: 6,806,200,321 billion +/- 1000

Age of the Earth: 4.54 billion years +/- 450 million

What other large numbers are well known? What about their accuracy?

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