July 25th, 2003, 09:56 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
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Originally posted by Taera:
OFF TOPIC what are the names for higher numbers anyways? its Million, Billion...?
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10^3: Thousand; 10^6: Million; 10^9: Billion; 10^12: Trillion ...
... By one definition of the words, anyway.
Check the italics; they're numbers (or nearly so - I could be a letter off in highlighting them, or there could have been some warp to it over time) in Latin (or is it Greek?) Mi: one; Bi: two; Tri: three. Multiply the matching number by three, add three, and you get the number of zero's that follow a one to get that cardinal number. In theory, you can learn to count in Greek (or is it Latin?) and go as high as you like in that fashion, but it quickly becomes easier to use scientific notation, so almost nobody uses the standard Version for cardinals above a trillion.
[ July 25, 2003, 08:56: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]
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