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Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta-8 4 10 27: Octillion Thousand quadrillion Quadrilliard R Ronna-9 5 10 30: Nonillion Quintillion Quintillion Q Quetta-10 5 10 33: Decillion ...
A standardized way of writing very large numbers allows them to be easily sorted in increasing order, and one can get a good idea of how much larger a number is than another one. To compare numbers in scientific notation, say 5×10 4 and 2×10 5 , compare the exponents first, in this case 5 > 4, so 2×10 5 > 5×10 4 .
Mathematics: √ 2 + 1 ≈ 2.414 213 562 373 095 049, the silver ratio; the ratio of the smaller of the two quantities to the larger quantity is the same as the ratio of the larger quantity to the sum of the smaller quantity and twice the larger quantity. Mathematics: e ≈ 2.718 281 828 459 045 087, the base of the natural logarithm.
If numbers differ by one order of magnitude, x is about ten times different in quantity than y. If values differ by two orders of magnitude, they differ by a factor of about 100. Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale: the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.
The plural "zillions" designates a number indefinitely larger than "millions" or "billions". In this case, the construction is parallel to the one for "millions" or "billions", with the number used as a plural count noun, followed by a prepositional phrase with "of", as in "There are zillions of grains of sand on the beaches of the world."
Chris Reynolds, 56, of Media, Pa., opened an email from PayPal on Friday to see the staggering sum of $92,233,720,368,547,800 -- a figure more than 1.26 million times the fortune of the world's ...
For powers of ten less than 9 (one, ten, hundred, thousand and million) the short and long scales are identical, but for larger powers of ten, the two systems differ in confusing ways. For identical names, the long scale grows by multiples of one million (10 6), whereas the short scale grows by multiples of one thousand (10 3).
Hotter-than-expected readings on consumer prices — and on some wholesale prices — this week led markets to price in a higher likelihood that the Federal Reserve will opt for a smaller, more ...