Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 1021

1021

(1000000000000000000000; 10007; short scale: one sextillion; long scale: one thousand trillion, or one trilliard)

ISO: zetta- (Z)

  • Geo — Grains of sand: All the world's beaches combined have been estimated to hold roughly 1021 grains of sand.
  • Mathematics — Sudoku: There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 (≈6.7×1021) 9×9 sudoku grids.
  • Astronomy — Stars: 70 sextillion = 7×1022, the estimated number of stars within range of telescopes (as of 2003); see mass of the observable universe.
  • Mathematics: 146,361,946,186,458,562,560,000 (≈1.5×1023) is the fifth unitary perfect number.

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