large_numbers

Large Numbers

See also Names of large numbers

Snippet from Wikipedia: Large numbers

Large numbers are numbers far larger than those encountered in everyday life, such as simple counting or financial transactions. These quantities appear prominently in mathematics, cosmology, cryptography, and statistical mechanics. Googology studies the naming conventions and properties of these immense numbers.

Since the customary decimal format of large numbers can be lengthy, other systems have been devised that allows for shorter representation. For example, a billion is represented as 13 characters (1,000,000,000) in decimal format, but is only 3 characters (109) when expressed in exponential format. A trillion is 17 characters in decimal, but only 4 (1012) in exponential. Values that vary dramatically can be represented and compared graphically via logarithmic scale.

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