10,000,000,000,000,000
10 quadrillion.
starting from the right each group of three zeros represents
hundreds
thousands
millions
billions
trillions
quadrillions
2007-10-18 02:10:01
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answer #1
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answered by Brian K² 6
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Brian K has given you the short scale approach (except for the presence of "hundreds" in his list).
The short count is mostly used in English speaking countries. It became popular because of its extensive use in the USA.
Elsewhere, the long scale is often used. In fact, in legal documents in ex-British colonies (other than USA), numbers are normally given in long count.
There, the prefix (bi- tri- quadr-) comes from the power to which one raises a million -- or, equivalently, from the number of times one says 'million' in describing the number.
So a number which is one million cubed, i.e., (10^6)^3 is called a trillion. It would be described by saying "one million million million."
Here,
10,000,000,000,000,000
is ten thousand million million.
That is ten thousand billion
when a -illion term is multiplied by a thousand, the ending is changed to -illiard.
Thus, a thousand million (called a billion in the US) is a milliard. As recently as the 1980s, this is the word that the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language used for a thousand million.
Therefore, under the long count, your number would be called 10 billiard.
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In scientific papers, we now avoid confusion by using the scientific notation as shown by joychayan: 10^16 (ten to the power 16).
There s also the Engineering notation: 10 x 10^15 (exponents of 10 are given in threes).
2007-10-18 02:23:17
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answer #3
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answered by Raymond 7
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10 penta____ (fill in the blank with moles or something akin in science)
2007-10-18 02:13:27
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answer #5
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answered by Brent 3
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