Quite an Omelette相當一omelette

Fellow freelance science writer研究員自由科學撰稿人 Russ Swan儒天鵝 emailed to bring a significant figure to my attention.通過電子郵件發送給帶來顯著的數字，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.他剛剛讀＃一新的紐約時報暢銷書無用的信息和資訊科技學會，中國生產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, .不僅是很多的雞隻，但that'sa很多omelettes ，炒雞蛋， meringues ，恩的UPS ，過度easies ，蛋糕混合物，阿特金斯雞蛋，雞蛋篤，咖哩蛋， deviled雞蛋，雞蛋和cress三文治，法語致祝酒辭或eggy麵包，醃蛋，和良好歲的煮雞蛋和士兵， 。

But, it’s not the recipes nor the chickens that concerns the Sciencetext site, oh no!但是，這不是食譜，也沒有雞隻涉及sciencetext網站，哦不！ It’s the precision with which that egg count is given.它的精度與卵計數。 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?與10多億人，基本上保持了無數的雞隻，在一個廣闊的國家，誰管理，計數，雞蛋產量12顯著的數字？ 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.如果他們想要說，約300億元，估計會被聰明，但這個數字給出了計數下降至去年雞蛋。

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.我要恨已傢伙滴答的小康計數，尤其是如果我得到中斷，因為禽流感疫情，正如我剛才已接近雞蛋的編號278564356900或thereabouts 。