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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... :rofl:

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
:lol: 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
Wikipedia's note on the use of "E" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific ... l_notation