30. Maths Are Fun!

30. "I Don't Care Anymore" by Phil Collins

Full acceptance and total apathy--the final stage of the post-break up. This song is about as perfect of a Phil Collins song as you can get. Pounding drums. Ominous chords. Snarling lyrics. Can you ask for anything more? Yes, you can. But Phil's not going to give it to you, because he don't care no mo-uh-ore.



Fun Fact: Phil sings 13 no-mos in a row at the end of the song. But there are no less than 10 no-mos spread out through the song before that, for a grand total of 23!

Mathematically speaking, the precise quantity of Phil's no-mo works out to be:

no-mo^23!

This could also be written as:

no-mo^{25852016738884976640000}

The American mathematical term/phrase for this large number is:

No-mo to the power twenty-five sextillion eight hundred and fifty-two quintillion sixteen quadrillion seven hundred and thirty-eight trillion eight hundred and eighty-four billion nine hundred and seventy-six million six hundred forty thousand

(And 99 cents!)

But since Phil is British, we should probably use British terms for large numbers which, of course, are going to be more better than the American terms. (Because in Britain, they learn "maths" in school, which automatically makes them more numberly smarter, because in America we only get to learn one "math.") So, if we speech maths in British, we would say:

No-mo to the power of nine stone

Which in Britishly maths symbolistics would read:

no-mo^{9£♕!(and 99 cents)}