This is a serious question. Excel only works to 30 decimal places. But is there a way to work it out without actually working it out, ie. can you simply tell how many decimal places it would be by looking at the power its raised to?
2007-08-23 21:07:01 · 7 answers · asked by boyinlove2k 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
0.1 to power 1 is 0.1
0.1 to power 2 is 0.01
0.1 to power 3 is 0.001
etc. So you need 499 zeros between the decimal and the "1".
But isn't 10^-500 much easier to handle than all those zeros?
2007-08-25 07:21:10 · answer #1 · answered by James P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's represent .1 with 1/10. Each time you multiply a number by 1/10, the decimal point is moved to the left. So, if it's already at .1, and you are dividing by 10 500 times, we can assume that there will be 501 decimal places.
2007-08-24 04:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by Matiego 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
500 decimal places....499 zeroes followed by 1
2007-08-24 04:12:43 · answer #3 · answered by shubham_nath 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
499 zeros
1 x 10^-500
2007-08-24 04:11:59 · answer #4 · answered by dbondocoy@yahoo.com 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
.10 = 10^(-1)
.10^500 = [10^(-1)]^500 = 10^(-500)
This number is
decimal point followed by 499 zeros followed by one.
2007-08-24 04:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
499 zeros
2007-08-24 04:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by jessica c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can write 0.1 as 1x10^(-1), or 1e-1 (this is known as scientific notation). 0.1 squared (i.e. 0.1 to the power of 2) = 1e-2. So, 0.1 to the power of 500 will equal 1e-500.
2007-08-24 06:04:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mathemaniac 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋