To write 1 trillion (1 followed by 12 zeros) or 1 googol (1 followed by 100 zeroes) takes a lot of space and time.
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Large numbers in scientific notation:
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Large numbers in scientific notation:
- 1 trillion is written as 1×1012 in scientific notation.
- 4 trillion is written as 4×1012 in scientific notation.
- 1 googol is written as 1×10100 in scientific notation.
How do you write a number in trillion?
A trillion is bigger than a million, more than a billion, it's 1,000,000,000,000 (and even or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 in some countries). (Yes, those are 18 zeroes in that last one.) Either way, this is such a large number that it's hard to imagine.
How do you write trillion in English?
Trillion
- 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.
- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, i.e. 1018 (ten to the eighteenth power), as defined on the long scale.
