Big Counts – Large Numbers

One interesting thought would be, to tally up the counts of some events; that is, the number of times they’ve occurred since the beginning of time.  Which events must really add up to huge numbers.  I wonder the counts for the following:

  1. Number of rain drops that have fallen on the Earth.
  2. Number of snow flakes that have ever fallen.
  3. Number of leaves to have ever sprouted, grown, withered and fell since the beginning of time.
  4. Number of CPU cycles since 1975.
  5. Number of spark plug firings in internal combustion engines since 1902.
  6. Number of steps taken by ants (all species) since the beginning of time.
  7. Number of orbits of all electrons on all atoms in the universe since the beginning of time.

Counts for these events are big numbers.  Do they reach or surpass a googol, googolplex or skewe’s numbers?  #7 probably out ranks them all, but has it reached a googol? googolplex?

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