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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:20 am
by feyd
Kieran Huggins wrote:it's a good thing we got THAT cleared up...
Is there a Septillion of anything? Let alone a Vigintillion?
Don't get me wrong - I
do think it's good to be prepared, but I just thought it was funny

If one were calculating the number of molecules or particles on the planet (or some other astronomical body) one could expect to get very large numbers. Granted, the epsilon for such a thing would probably be rather large. Pretty much anything in the astronomic scale could get very large very quickly.
Now I must be off to see if I can make the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:57 pm
by Ambush Commander
But for those large amounts you never see things like vigintillion: they just use the "e" notation (powers of ten).
I also wonder whether or not you're going to offer support for other languages.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:00 pm
by feyd
Ambush Commander wrote:But for those large amounts you never see things like vigintillion: they just use the "e" notation (powers of ten).
True, science is often carried out with scientific notation for a reason.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:03 am
by neel_basu

But 10e50 cannot used in number to words conversion.
its funny if you draw a check of 0.0002e5$
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:57 am
by Christopher
Ambush Commander wrote:But for those large amounts you never see things like vigintillion: they just use the "e" notation (powers of ten).
But don't confuse common logarithm with natural logarithm which really does use
e.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:55 pm
by Ambush Commander
Yep. I never understood the choice of "e" for the notation.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:12 pm
by feyd