Ought Goes Into Ought

There is a women's clothing size of "0" -- zero. I would have thought that even Barbie wore something greater than zero. I learned about Size 0 because Business Week reports that The Gap is going to be introducing Size 00 -- double zero, a size smaller than zero.

My shoe width is EEE, which means that I'm borderline platypus. If I were EEEE, trucks would not be able to knock me over.

Missouri and Illinois (and probably your state) are changing the mileposts on their Interstate Highways. In the original scheme, there were mileposts every, dah, mile. They were almost always just off the right-hand shoulder.

We are now getting between-mileposts mileposts, usually in the median.

Illinois is using decimals: 6.0, 6.2, 6.4, 6.8, etc.

Missouri is using fractions: 6 1/4, 6 1/2, 6 3/4, etc.

Illinois is having to put up more signs, but the math will be easier: The distance between milemarker 23 3/4 and milemarker 71 1/4 is how many miles?

This is a Googol: 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

Please note that all of the above is more interesting that last night's Oscar telecast!