"AND HE MEASURED THE CITY WITH THE REED, 12,000 FURLONGS.
THE LENGTH AND THE BREADTH AND THE HEIGHT OF IT ARE EQUAL." THIS REPRESENTS A SPACE OF 469,783,088,000,000,000,000 CUBIC FEET. IT SETS ASIDE ONE-HALF OF THIS SPACE FOR THE THRONE AND THE COURT OF HEAVEN, AND ONE-HALF OF THE BALANCE FOR STREETS, WHICH WOULD LEAVE A REMAINDER OF 124,198,272,000,000,000,000, CUBIC FEET.
THEN DIVIDE THIS BY 4,096, THE NUMBER OF CUBIC FEET IN A ROOM SIXTEEN FEET SQUARE, AND THIS PROCESS LEAVES 30,321,843,750,000,000 ROOMS OF THE SIZE INDICATED.
THEN UPON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE WORLD NOW CONTAINS, ALWAYS HAS CONTAINED, AND WILL ALWAYS CONTAIN
990,000,000 INHABITANTS, AND THAT A GENERATION LASTS FOR THIRTY-THREE AND ONE-THIRD YEARS,WHICH GIVES A TOTAL NUMBER OF INHABITANTS EVERY CENTRY OF 2,297,000,000,
ASSUME THAT THE
WORLD WILL STAND FOR 1000 CENTURIES OR 100,000 YEARS, WHICH WOULD GIVE A TOTAL OF 2,970,000,000,000, INHABITANTS FOR THIS PERIOD OF TIME,
WE THEN REACH THE CONCLUSION THAT
IF 100 WORLDS OF THE SAME SIZE AND DURATION, AND CONTAINING THE SAME NUMBER OF INHABITANTS, THERE WOULD BE MORE THAN 100 ROOMS OF THE SIZE INDICATED FOR EACH PERSON.