1 Billion billions! I've heard people say that this number is the legendary "Googol" from which the famous search engine takes its name, but this is not the case. A Googol is far larger than that. A billion billions is represented numerically like this:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
that is, a one followed by 18 zeros! What do you call it? Well the etymology is actually rather easy to follow, as it still follows the same nomenclature as the rest of the counting numbers. 1 followed by 3 zeros is a thousand and you can have 999 of those. So the next 1 up from that is followed by 6 zeros, called a million, and you can have 999 of those too! And so on and so forth. the next 1 up from that is followed by 9 zeros, called a billion and you can have 999 of those as well! You can see the pattern emerging! So, to cut a long story short:
1,000 = thousand (3 zeros)
1,000,000 = million (6 zeros)
1,000,000,000 = billion (9 zeros)
1,000,000,000,000 = trillion (12 zeros)
1,000,000,000,000,000 = quadrillion (15 zeros)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = quintillion (18 zeros)
As we have already established that a billion billions is a 1 followed by 18 zeros, then this must obviously be a quintillion!! QED.
- Danny Liwszyc -
P.S. If you are curious as to the value of a Googol, well, it is a 1 followed by 1 HUNDERD ZEROS!!:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 If you want more information on this, go to wikipedia.org and search for "googol"
8.1 x 1000000000 = 8100000000
5 x 1000000000 = 5000000000
1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 x 100 = 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 100 quintillion.
300/1000000000 x 100 = 0.00003 percent.
1 x 1000000000 10 x 100000000 100 x 10000000 1000 x 1000000 10000 x 100000
2,000,000,000
2250000000
10000000 x 10 is 1000000000.
X = 7.943282347242815
40000000000000000000
2009000000000 2,009,000,000,000
nano- prefix means 1/1000000000 = 10-9 ⇒ 1 ns = 1/1000000000 s To convert 64000000 ns to seconds, multiply by 1/1000000000 which is the same as dividing by 1000000000: 64000000 ns = 64000000 x 1/1000000000 s = 64000000 x 10-9 s