To set the tone, Mr Perry has put forward a bizarre (and, in terms of paper, deeply wasteful) first budget, with zeroes beside every item.

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The biggest supercomputer ever built handles 11 quadrillion flops (or petaflops, a 1 with 15 zeroes) and draws 13 megawatts, the juice of nine wind turbines.

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With enough zeroes Steve Scott can change the world.

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One piece that might have worked was priced with far too many zeroes on the tag.

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That would be a number with 61, 000 zeroes in it.

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You get the the itty-bitty number that looks like 0.000000001 but with tens of thousands of zeroes between the decimal and the 1.

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King James arguably has a strong case both with Nike and his league to add some more zeroes to his endorsement contracts.

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Well, it appears that that company has arrived with WaterSense labeling for new homes, a partnership program that zeroes in on the water efficiency of newly built residences.

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The European plan zeroes in on one aspect of the financial crisis: Banks with extra cash are unwilling to loan it to banks that are short of cash.

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Because they do not have to concern themselves with the economic consequences, they can be very casual about adding a few zeroes to a judgment when the plaintiff tugs at their heartstrings.

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