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You are projecting christian view a bit here.

Buddhism and perhaps other Indian religions have some really large numbers, e.g. http://allergrootste.com/big/book/ch1/ch1_7.html

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Another large number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi#Origins

second that. it's so easy to be atheist in west in the midst of modern understanding of science and universe. but if you venture out to other religions and scriptures in countries like India you keep discovering more ancient scriptures with much larger sense of time and advanced thoughts like multiverse[1].. May be inadvertently but even some scriptures have approximated the age of earth to be 4.3 billion years which is not accurate but closer [2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology#:~:text=Every%....

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_(aeon)

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