Quite an Omelette相当一omelette

Fellow freelance science writer研究员自由科学撰稿人 Russ Swan儒天鹅 emailed to bring a significant figure to my attention.通过电子邮件发送给带来显着的数字，到了我的注意。 He’s just been reading the #1 New York Times bestseller Book of Useless Information and in it learns that China produces 278,564,356,980 eggs per year.他刚刚读＃一新的纽约时报畅销书无用的信息和资讯科技学会，中国生产278564356980蛋每年。 Not only is that a lot of chickens, but that’sa lot of omelettes, scrambled eggs, meringues, sunnyside ups, over-easies, cake mixtures, chucky eggs, eggs Benedict, curried eggs, deviled eggs, egg and cress sandwiches, French toast or eggy bread, pickled eggs, and good-old boiled egg and soldiers, .不仅是很多的鸡只，但that'sa很多omelettes ，炒鸡蛋， meringues ，恩的UPS ，过度easies ，蛋糕混合物，阿特金斯鸡蛋，鸡蛋笃，咖喱蛋， deviled鸡蛋，鸡蛋和cress三文治，法语致祝酒辞或eggy面包，腌蛋，和良好岁的煮鸡蛋和士兵， 。

But, it’s not the recipes nor the chickens that concerns the Sciencetext site, oh no!但是，这不是食谱，也没有鸡只涉及sciencetext网站，哦不！ It’s the precision with which that egg count is given.它的精度与卵计数。 With more than a billion people, keeping essentially countless chickens, in a vast nation, who managed to count the egg output to twelve significant figures?与10多亿人，基本上保持了无数的鸡只，在一个广阔的国家，谁管理，计数，鸡蛋产量12显着的数字？ If they’d said about 300 billion, that estimate would have been clever enough, but this number gives a count down to the last egg.如果他们想要说，约300亿元，估计会被聪明，但这个数字给出了计数下降至去年鸡蛋。

I’d hate to have been the guy ticking off the tally, especially if I got interrupted because of a bird flu outbreak just as I was approaching egg #278,564,356,900 or thereabouts.我要恨已家伙滴答的小康计数，尤其是如果我得到中断，因为禽流感疫情，正如我刚才已接近鸡蛋的编号278564356900或thereabouts 。