Need some math assistance please

[BOSSHOG]

How many digits are in a trillion? I want to get a calculator that goes up to 100 trillion but don't know how many digits that is. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[TomInTib]

1. 1,000,000,000,000... that would be 13 digits,'HOG

[DrDan]

2. 13

[Jazz2006]

3. 100,000,000,000,000 (15 digits to get to 100 trillion)

1 trillion has 12 zeroes, 100 trillion thus requires 15 digits

[Journeyman]

5. You'll probably need 30 digits -- BushCo still has 2-1/2 years to go. . .

just looking out for your future interests and needs, Boss.

[BOSSHOG]

4. That's alot of damn zeros! THANKS YA'LL

[mdmc]

ok... what in the world are you doing

inquiring minds.... :D

[BOSSHOG]

9. Listening to business news and economic information

we hear more of trillions and billions now a days then numbers the common man can comprehend. My old calculator only has eight digits so I wanted to be able to understand the current level of debt, savings, federal deficits etc...

[mdmc]

10. wow

pretty cool....

[dipsydoodle]

6. Don't think it will dislay in that way

anyway. May abb. the number of digits displayed but if so then the screen will show you , in some way, the number which are suppressed and whether at the beginning or end of a string.

[IChing]

7. trillion explained in the concept of time

In the U.S., one trillion is written as the number
"1" followed by 12 zeros (1,000,000,000,000)



thousand; $ 8,000 seconds = 2.2 hours

tens of thousands $ 80,000 seconds = almost one day or .925

hundred of thousands $ 800,000 seconds = 9.25 days

million 8,000,000 seconds = around 3 months or 3.04 months

hundreds of millions 800,000,000 seconds = around 25 years or 25.36

billion 8,000,000,000 seconds = 253.6 years

trillion 8.000,000,000,000 seconds= 253,658 years

(60sec/min) x (60 min/hr) x (24 hr/da) x (365.25 da) = 3.16 x 107 sec
One trillion seconds of ordinary clock time =

( 1012 sec)/( 3.16 x 107 sec/yr) = 31,546 years!

8 x 31,546 years = 253,658 years!

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[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Paying $3600/hour, it'd take 254,000 years to pay our debt.

Not accounting for interest.

The interest alone costs us $46,000,000 per hour.

[IChing]

18. But, I did that with the number 8 and now it is 9 trillion.

damn, now I need to do a new calculation in my brain.....LOL

But time is limited. (or so they say)


The word computers original came from when and describe what?

[lumberjack_jeff]

19. IChing, you must know grasshopper

The were from early china and referred to people who calculated business transactions.

[madinmaryland]

8. How many digits in a brazillion?

Sorry, couldn't resist!

[bluerum]

12. Wow - I guess that would be as many as I have on my right hand!

[survivor999]

11. You can easily ignore

the last 3 or even 6 zeros and do your calculations that way (pretending they are much smaller numbers).... I mean, 1.5 trillios + 1.5 trillions = 3 trillions (you can just do 1.5 million + 1.5 million = 3 million and add the 6 zeros back)!

[lectrobyte]

13. you want a calculator that will do "scientific notation" -- it'd be

something like 1 x 10^15

[central scrutinizer]

14. scientific notation, definitely

any scientific calculator will have a scientific notation button, usually labeled EXP or on the TI graphing calculators it is EE. One trillion will look like: 1E12 on the TI's

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Think you have a UK trillion there ... US quadrillion. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Easy to figure out.

Everybody knows that a million is 1,000,000. Right?

Well the numbering from there goes on systematically. Notice the 'm', as in 'mono.'

The next big one is billion: 1,000,000,000. 'b' as in 'bi.' It's one more comma over.

Then it's trillion: 1,000,000,000,000. 'tri'

Then it's quadrillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000. 'quad' Notice the numbering?

Then it's 'quin' then 'sex' then 'sept' then 'oct' and so on.

[kath]

21. But in the UK, a billion is a million million (ie 1 x 10 to the 12th - the

same as what the US calls a "trillion) not a thousand million like it is here.

[SoCalDem]

20. I'll write you a check for it..just admire the zeros..don't cash it

until payday :P