Some numbers are too large for us to visualize. Can you think of creative ways to allow people to visualize a million? A billion? A centillion?
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No. Sorry.
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well what we use today with the powers is good to see if it a million or not 10 power 25...
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Look up at the stars on a clear night and try and count! ######################## Okay Roger, use a telescope. Lol. I suppose another way is to count the grains of sand on the beach?
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By my calculations, a large truck (tractor-trailer or semi as they're also called) would hold one billion dollars in hundred dollar bills. Useful when you hear the government talking about how they're spending our tax money, because most people have an idea of how much $100 is worth. A half-inch stack of them is $10,000. By the way, if you've got a box of old dirty ones, you could always send it to me so I can check my calculations when I get enough. I promise to send them back when I'm done with them.
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Some ways: A million is a 100 x 100 x 100. So it's the number of cubic centimeters in a cubic meter. A billion is a 1000x 1000 x 1000. The number of cubic millimeters in a cubic meter. Neither's too hard to imagine: Imagine a transparent water tank 1m on a side and a meter rule marked with mm next to it. A centillion is a bit more tricky. I would guess the best way would be to draw a logarithmic scale. E.g. have 1 at the left side, and 10 one inch later, 100 is one inch to the right of that ... and a centillion is 303 inches from the start. Each mark represents ten times the previous mark.
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uhh a centillion is here we go 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 YES I typed that whole thing out without and copying or pasting. and YES I have no life
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uhh a centillion is here we go 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 YES I typed that whole thing out without any copying or pasting. and YES I have no life
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I saw this at a museum once. they had a huge wall with tiny dots and it was labeled by how many dots ( one million, ect.) so you could visually see what it looks like.
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One centillion is 10^303. Ref-http://webster.com/mw/table/number.htm. This is the same as the cube of 10^101, i.e, the cube of ten-googol. So we can imagine an enormous cube where each side of the cube is 10-googol units long. Now it turns out that one light-year contains about 10^25 nanometers (a nanometer is about the size of an atom). http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/ So a googol (10^100) is the *4th power* of the number of atoms strung along a line one light-year long. Yikes! Take ten times that, cube it, and you've got one centillion. It boggles the mind. That's why we invented logarithms! Note: In the British numbering system one centillion = 10^600, in which case my mind is boggled-squared. Here's another stab at it: The number of hydrogen atoms in the entire known universe is estimated to be about 10^80. Ref-http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct98/905633072.As.r.html So to reach 10^303, you'd have to take the number of hydrogen atoms in the universe (got that pictured?) and raise it to almost the fourth power. Yikes! again.
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A million is what the jewely is on any celeb on the red carpet, a billion..just checkout the Forbes top 10.
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