Examples
See also: Examples of numbers, in numerical order- , called "10 billion" (or sometimes, 10,000 million in the long scale).
- googol =
- centillion = or, depending on number naming system
- googolplex =
- Skewes' numbers: the first is approximately, the second
The total amount of printed material in the world is roughly 1.6 × 1018 bits; therefore the contents can be represented by a number somewhere in the range 0 to roughly
Compare:
The first number is much larger than the second, due to the larger height of the power tower, and in spite of the small numbers 1.1. In comparing the magnitude of each successive exponent in the last number with, we find a difference in the magnitude of effect on the final exponent.
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